Some simple PHP/RegEx Questions

I have a few years of PHP experience under my belt, but I don't have a lot of experience with doing this exact type of work. I don't need hand holding, merely suggestions on what would be the best way to go about this. I know I'm going to need some regex's, which I'm horrible at. If anyones got any example source code it'd be awesome.

Basically, for personal use, I'm wanting to take a page and import it using curl, or whatever and find all the links, which i'm going to analyze, find out which ones are the ones that i want, then i'm wanting to import those pages one by one and scrape a certain area of text in between a certain < div > area and then i'll save it to the database.

The analyzing, and saving to database and whatnot I can handle no problem, but can you fellas help me out with how I should import the pages using CURL and how I could find the certain blocks of text that I need using regex's? Thanks in advance.

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

It's awesome, has saved me hours .

Have a read through this book and use their libraries to help get you started:

http://www.schrenk.com/nostarch/webbots/DSP_download.php

heiska said:

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

It's awesome, has saved me hours .

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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks a lot.

I used simplehtmldom in the past, it can get VERY UGLY with memory.

Use Zend 's framework DOM implementation. Much better. Not perfect, but very nice.

jazzc said:

I used simplehtmldom in the past, it can get VERY UGLY with memory.

Use Zend 's framework DOM implementation. Much better. Not perfect, but very nice.

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Do you have any preferred resources I could check out on this? Id appreciate it.

This will be a one time scrape once I get everything fine tuned and worked out, and I'm doing it from a server setup on a local box, so I'm not too extremely concerned about a mem hog.

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dom.query.html
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