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Possible Array in PHP
I have some data that I have extracted, stripped out unneeded characters
and I was wondering if somehow I could define the rest of it as an array.
I am using PHP v 5.6.25
The stripped out data consist of 5 rows and each row contains 7 cells.
My first thought was grab each <tr></tr> section, finding the position of first <td> and then it's corresponding ending </td> and looping thru each <td> cell.
I would save the position of the previous ending </td> so be starting point of next cycle.
But I was wondering if I could define the <td></td> cells as an array - would be a heck of alot easier to extract the data
Below is what a section looks like and it is the same thru out table.
Maybe use eplode function first to redefine as an array ??
Any thoughts would help. I can do it the long way but it would be nice to have a short cut...and more effective and efficient,
thank you...
and I was wondering if somehow I could define the rest of it as an array.
I am using PHP v 5.6.25
The stripped out data consist of 5 rows and each row contains 7 cells.
My first thought was grab each <tr></tr> section, finding the position of first <td> and then it's corresponding ending </td> and looping thru each <td> cell.
I would save the position of the previous ending </td> so be starting point of next cycle.
But I was wondering if I could define the <td></td> cells as an array - would be a heck of alot easier to extract the data
Below is what a section looks like and it is the same thru out table.
Maybe use eplode function first to redefine as an array ??
<tr>
<td >blah<br>blah blah</td>
<td >229939</td>
<td >09/06/2019</td>
<td >23.00</td>
<td >0.00</td>
<td ><br></td>
<td >23.00</td>
<td >more info</td>
</tr>
Any thoughts would help. I can do it the long way but it would be nice to have a short cut...and more effective and efficient,
thank you...
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gr8gonzo
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William Peck
You can help avoid this a little by using an HTML parser like simplehtmldom but if the owner of the content ever decides to just stop using traditional tables and switch to div-based tables, then that will also break your code. Whenever possible, you should try to see if you can get the data from an API instead of extracting it from HTML. An API is far more likely to stay reliable and give you very organized data that doesn't require you to manually parse it.