specifics ref. converting from perl to php

[shadkeene]

My company has unfortunately outlawed Perl from being used on its server. Considering its a scientific company, I think that its pretty stupid. Anyway, I have some scripts that aren't very useful unless they're on the server. Most of them are extracting text data from webpages and manipulating it. I'm specifically using html::tokeparser::simple for a lot of the parsing. Does anyone here have a useful counterpart in php that can do the trick? And if so, do you know if its standard in php or is an extension that I need to configure. Thanks!
Shad

[KevinADC]

Ask on a php forum how to parse html documents with php.

[oesxyl]

Ask on a php forum how to parse html documents with php.
as far as I know there is no such a extension, only local improvisation using regex, :)

regards

[scrupul0us]

well you can use the DOM extensions to traverse websites for extraction:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtmlfile.php

Thank should get you going in the right direction

... as for regexes ... it can be done, but learn the right way first and you'll be glad