Sounds simple enough but I'm new to the whole screen scraping thing. What I have is a remote site http://www.remotesite.com (for example purposes) that has a schedule table with a structure like so:
<table>
<tr>
<td class="team">
Team 1
</td>
<td class="team">
Team 2
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The table is populated with a dynamic range of entries depending on the the number of games going that day where Team 1 vs Team 2 etc.
I've built my scraper to get a list of all the teams listed in the table and it works successfully. Here's the code:
<?php
// Load Simple DOM
include_once("simple_html_dom.php");
// Scrape the Schedule
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$html = file_get_html("http://www.remotesite.com/schedule.htm");
// Load HTML
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
// Get all the Teams
$my_xpath_query = "//table//td[contains(@class, 'team')]";
$result_rows = $xpath->query($my_xpath_query);
?>
And to echo the scrape I have this code:
<?php
// Display the schedule
foreach ($result_rows as $result_object){
echo $result_object->nodeValue;
}
?>
However, what this does is echo out the teams like so:
Team1Team2Team3Team4Team5Team6 etc, etc.
It is getting the pairs of teams that are playing against each other in the correct order but what I need to do is essentially echo out the table the same way I'm fetching it.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!