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

Cometolearn Reviewed by Cometolearn on 28th Apr 2012. how to parse url? 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 Rating: 5

[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.