how can i grab my tables and display them on another page using reg-ex

[luke]

For some reason

page 1.html // get contents from page 2.html

[code=php]

function get_tag($htmlel ement,$attr, $value, $html)
{
$attr = preg_quote($att r);
$value = preg_quote($val ue);

if($attr!='' && $value!='')
{

$tag_regex = '/<'.$htmlelement .'[^>]*'.$attr.'="'.$ value.'" width="100%">(. *?)<\\/'.$htmlelement. '>/si';

$matchCount = preg_match($tag _regex,$html,$m atches);

if ($matchCount > 0)
{
echo("$matchCou nt matches found.\n");
}
else
{
echo("no records");
}

}
}
$htmlcontent = file_get_conten ts("http://page2.html/");
$extract = get_tag("table" ,"class", "tablemenu" , $htmlcontent);

echo $extract;



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page2.html

I would like to grab all of the tables from the page and display them on another one.

[code=html]

// more code

<table width="100%" class="tablemen u">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>

</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<table width="100%" class="tablemen u">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
// some data
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<table width="100%" class="tablemen u">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
// some data
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<table width="100%" class="tablemen u">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
// some data
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

// more code

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I have kept trying but had no luck :(

[Atli]

Regular expressions are not a good way to find things in a HTML document. HTML syntax is to irregular for it to be reliable. You need an actual parser if you want this to work properly.

PHP has a built in libraries that can be used to parse HTML documents. Most of them are more focused on XML, but many can also be used to deal with HTML. - The DOM extension, for example, has a DOMDocument class with a loadHTMLFile method. With that, you can traverse the HTML structure in much the same way you would in JavaScript.

For example:

<?php

$filePath = "/path/to/HTML/file.html";

// Load the HTML file.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTMLFile($filePath);

// Find all the tables.
$tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table");

// Go through the table list and look for tables
// with the class: "tablemenu"
if ($tables && $tables->length > 0) {
    for ($i = 0; $i < $tables->length; ++$i) {
        $item = $tables->item($i);
        $class = $item->attributes->getNamedItem("class")->nodeValue;
        if ($class == "tablemenu") {
            // The $item here would be one of the
            // tables we are looking for!
        }
    }
}

[luke]

Getting an error Trying to get property of non-object in C:\wamp\www

reffers to this line...

$class = $item->attributes->getNamedItem(" class")->nodeValue;

but my table does print out.

[code=php]
$filePath = "http://msn.net/";

// Load the HTML file.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML(file_ get_contents($f ilePath));

// Find all the tables.
$tables = $dom->getElementsByT agName("table") ;

if ($tables && $tables->length > 0) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $tables->length; ++$i) {
$item = $tables->item($i);
$class = $item->attributes->getNamedItem(" class")->nodeValue;

if ($class == "tablemenu" ) {

echo $item->nodeValue;
echo "<br />";
}
}
}
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