PHP Parse Between Tags

ironclaw

Just a quick question regarding PHP between tags. I have a HTML style string in this format:

<td>Number</td>
<td>Person</td>
<td>Time</td>

What I want to do is populate an array based on the info between the td tags. So:

$array[0] = "Number";
$array[1] = "Person";

I know of explode and preg_match but I can't seem to delve between the tags and build an array.

Many Thanks!

boblong

Have you tried using regular expressions? For example I just wrote this ruby:

>> a = "<td>Number</td><td>Person</td><td>Time</td>"

>> a.scan(/<td\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/td>/)

 => [["Number"], ["Person"], ["Time"]]

That being said, parsing html with regexes is a pretty surefire way to get yourself shouted at, so I'd recommend looking for a php html parser. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-cthulhu-way.html

The Corinthian

[PHP]header("Content-type: text/plain");
print_r (parseTableData("<td>Number</td><td>Person</td><td>Time</td>"));

function parseTableData($table) {
$result = array();
while (stristr($table, "<td>")) {
$start = strlen($table) - strlen(stristr($table, "<td>"));
$table = substr ($table, $start + 4);
$end = strlen($table) - strlen(stristr($table, "</td>"));
$result[] = trim(substr($table, 0, $end));
}
return $result;
}[/PHP]
Note: Comes with no warranty or QA. Naturally would require further complexity in practice as it also presumes table rows with no attributes.