Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, February 16, 2006 1:20 pm, Boby wrote: > Jay Blanchard wrote: >>> I need to extract news items from several news sites. > >> ... >>> Can anybody please give me some pointers? >> >> Can you be more specific here? This is awfully broad. > > I'll give an example: > > Let's say I want to extra

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2006-02-16 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Let's say I want to extract some news-items from the www.CNN.com web page (If you visit CNN's page, you can see the 'MORE NEWS' block at the right side). I know how to extract the news-items (or any other data in the page) using regular expressions, but I wonder if there are other ways.

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] What?!? You're not awake at 4:30 in the morning writing code?!? I think the commitee will have to reconsider your geek club membership. :) [/snip] How do you think that I knew the original post came in at that time? ROFLMAO. Go ahead revoke my Geek Club card, the discounts no longer

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I did a search ... [/snip] My apologies Henry, I had just received a piece of disturbing news along with starting my Monday at 4:30 CST with some database server problems. You just happened to get in the line of fire. Start with the regular expression functions in PHP. Once you have an und

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread John Nichel
What?!? You're not awake at 4:30 in the morning writing code?!? I think the commitee will have to reconsider your geek club membership. :) Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Thanks Jay, I am still a newbie and I will read the manual, thankyou for the help. Having an OK day in the UK .

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Henry
I assure you that I am not trying to circumvent google's anything. I'm trying to provide a HTML translation page tool for some of my visitors where they will provide there own URL and a translation of some keywords will be done for them. Thats all. I never actually was going to flaunt googles term

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi Henry, > If it is so simple perhaps you might spend 5 > minutes generating the regular expression to > use that will ignore the contents of tags save > for the contents of quotes within meta tags and > do the replace for an associative array of mappings. http://google.com/search?q=regex+se

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Henry
I did a search and I remebered that I have previously seen some of your work. In particlar your guide to CMS in evolt.org. Which I think is absolutely wonderful. Thankyou for your help and I hope that I haven't gone to far with my disingenuous comment posting. I hadn't appreciated the time differe

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Henry
Dear Jay, I have now had a look in the FM and whilst it does help if you know how to use regular expressions I think that you are being a little disingenuous. Having to parse the HTML is more complicated than is suggest in your reply. If it is so simple perhaps you might spend 5 minutes generating

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Thanks Jay, I am still a newbie and I will read the manual, thankyou for the help. Having an OK day in the UK . [/snip] Henry your questions will get answered more quickly and accurately when you provide a. A clear explanation of the problem at hand 2. Proof that you have d

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread John Nichel
The tools for you to execute the regular expression are there for you in the manual. The actual regular expression that you're looking for is not a php issue. And I can't say that I'm totally convinced that you're still not trying to circumvent google's TOS. Henry wrote: What; nobody has anyt

Re: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Henry
Thanks Jay, I am still a newbie and I will read the manual, thankyou for the help. Having an OK day in the UK . Henry "Jay Blanchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:003f01c27e93$87bc1da0$8102a8c0@;000347D72515... > [snip] > What; nobody has anything to say about parsing

RE: [PHP] Re: Parsing HTML

2002-10-28 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] What; nobody has anything to say about parsing HTML and doing search and replaces!! Is there another news group that might be better suited? I do want to do it PHP if I hadn't made that clear. Somebody, anybody, please help. [/snip] What? No one wants to help someone who didn't search the