Question

I am using CURL to generate data. Though the site is not providing any other format for extraction So what I have did simply paas the url and retrieving data in HTML this is my script is retrievning. Can I convert that html data to any other format like JSON or XML so it would easy for me to parse HTML in PHP. If I can’t get data in JSON/XL how would I extract data that is parse it according to my relevance. I got some code to get it in json.

function get_json_content($json_url = '') {
    $ch = curl_init($json_url);
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array('Content-type: application/json'),
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 160,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => 1
    );

    curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);               // Setting curl options
    $result = curl_exec($ch);                       // Getting jSON result string
    return $result;
}

$json_url = 'http://www.evertek.com/viewpart.asp?auto=78053&cat=45#.UKZWHme5JI4';
$get_result = get_json_content($json_url);
die($get_result);

This $get_result is receving in html. Please help me my motto is to extract or parse data in proper format no matter wheresoever format it is in. I just want to easily parse data so I can use it with PHP.

Answer 1

You can only use what CURL is giving you back, and CURL can only get what it’s given – in this case, HTML.

HTML isn’t difficult to work with, take a look at the answers here: How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?