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copied!<p>using <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/book.tidy.php" rel="nofollow">Tidy</a>, <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php" rel="nofollow">DOMDocument</a> and <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.domxpath.php" rel="nofollow">DOMXPath</a> (make sure the PHP extensions are enabled) you can do something like this:</p> <pre><code><?php $url = "http://example.org/test.html"; function get_data_from_table($id, $url) { // retrieve the content of that url $content = file_get_contents($url); // repair bad HTML $tidy = tidy_parse_string($content); $tidy->cleanRepair(); $content = (string)$tidy; // load into DOM $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadHTML($content); // make xpath-able $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); // search for the first td of each tr, where its content is $id $query = "//tr/td[position()=1 and normalize-space(text())='$id']"; $elements = $xpath->query($query); if ($elements->length != 1) { // not exactly 1 result as expected? return number of hits return $elements->length; } // our td was found $element = $elements->item(0); // get his parent element (tr) $tr = $element->parentNode; $data = array(); // iterate over it's td elements foreach ($tr->getElementsByTagName("td") as $td) { // retrieve the content as text $data[] = $td->textContent; } // return the array of <td> contents return $data; } echo '<pre>'; print_r( get_data_from_table( 414, $url ) ); echo '</pre>'; </code></pre> <p>Your HTML source (http://example.org/test.html):</p> <pre><code><table><tr> <td>413</td> <td>Party Hat</td> <td>0</td> <td>No</td> <td><a href="http://clubpenguincheatsnow.com/tools/swfviewer/items.swf?id=413">View SWF</a></td> </tr><tr> <td>414</td> <td>Party Hat</td> <td>0</td> <td>No</td> <td><a href="http://clubpenguincheatsnow.com/tools/swfviewer/items.swf?id=413">View SWF</a></td> </tr> </code></pre> <p>(as you can see, no valid HTML, but this doesn't matter)</p>

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