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How to parse and process HTML with PHP?

Let’s say I want to extract a certain number/text from a table from here: http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=chn/ranking/gender=m/index.html

I want to get the first number on the right table td under FIFA Ranking position. That would be 88 right now. Upon inspection, it is <td class="c">88</td>.

How would I use PHP to extract the info from said webpage?

edit: I am told JQuery/JavaScript it is for this… better suited

Answer 1

This could probably be prettier, but it’d go something like:

<?php
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=chn/ranking/gender=m/index.html");
preg_match('/<td class="c">[0-9]*</td>/',$page,$matches);
foreach($matches as $match){
    echo str_replace(array( "/<td class=\"c\">", "</td>"), "", $match);
}
?>

I’ve never done anything like this before with PHP, so it may not work.

If you can work your magic after page load, you can use JavaScript/JQuery

<script type='text/javascript'>
var arr = [];

jQuery('table td.c').each(
    arr[] = jQuery(this).html();
);

return arr;
</script>

Also, sorry for deleting my comment. You weren’t specific as to what needed to be done, so I initially though jQuery would better fit your needs, but then I thought “Maybe you want to get the page content before an HTML page is loaded”.