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Pulling data from remote HTML pages, regular expression help?

Asked by heruraha in PHP Scripting Language

I'm a fairly good PHP programmer, but I haven't worked much with regular expressions (which I think is what I need to be using here) and I think I need to call in some help on this problem.

I've got a client whose current webmaster is essentially holding his website hostage, and he wants me to rebuild it.  Forensically reconstructing his pages has been no problem, but now I've got to extract some 20,000+ articles from the old website and put them into my new database.

Cutting and pasting them one at a time is obviously out of the question, so I've been trying to write a script that will open the remote pages and pull out a few pieces of data - Title, Date, Time, Author, and Body of the article.  All of these articles are displayed on fairly predictable template pages, though obviously the data I'm trying to extract is variable from article to article and the template page rotates through banner ads.

I've used eregi_replace before, and I tried adapting a similar technique here but I'm not savvy enough with regular expressions to figure out how to make it find large blocks of text or highly variable data in a huge haystack.

So basically if one of you can give me a crash-course in regular expressions with a view towards what I've said above and allow me a few follow-up Q+As, I've got 250 points for you :)

Or, maybe someone has a better idea....
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