how to parse url?

[Cometolearn]

hi,
Just wondering and need to create a parser that parse url and store content in php variable and we can extract our wish-able content from it is this possible

can any one show with example

Regards

 

[Halcyon]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Cheers

 

[Cometolearn]

i want to extract content from page and store in variable and use for purposes.


e.g

in this page source

i want to find "<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="/members/list/">"" and find its preceding literal

store precedings in variable . limit is, mean stop saving character when its find
"</a>"

so final varible should contain string "Members List"

 

[soft2050]

For heavier: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php or a good class : http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

For simpler tasks, you could take support of regex or indexof... and substring to parse

 

[Cometolearn]

thanks for help can u please tell where can i learn regex in simple and in easy way . it's look complicated

 

[soft2050]

For testing: http://gskinner.com/RegExr/, that website also gives a good description of different types of sets & special characters you can use.
Try to search for a quick tutorial on Regular Expressions and you will find loads of them.

 

[Cometolearn]

i am using HTML DOM Parser but i have encoding problem how can i solve it

for as-trope character its show some alien character


please guide

thanx

 

[soft2050]

Try to use iconv function to convert charset of text to the charset you use on page before outputting.