Re: Re: Extract specific div element from page

Oops, I accidentally sent this directly to CK, my apologies. Thank you for your replies. The reason that I didn't explore the JS route is because this will be running in the background, I didn't want to have to visit the page in any way. I went looking for an easy way to accomplish this in PHP but due to malformed HTML in some sites (not wordpress that I am aware of) it wasn't going to be so easy. Someone in ##php on irc.freenode.net pointed me to BeautifulSoup which is a Python module for scraping pages even if they have bad HTML. Within a minute I had a script that grabbed the parts I wanted, and even removed the parts I didn't (such as comments). Now I have a Python script that runs when I am going to update the docs on my Palm, it grabs the page(s), strips out the unimportant stuff, saves to a local directory, and then I have Sunrise parse that into plucker document format. Once again, thank you for the responses. On 6/15/07, Dan <frozendice@gmail.com> wrote:

Or you could just use Javascript combined with PHP, just use javascript it's something like this document.getElementById('tagId').innerHtml that will give you the html(contents) of the <div> tag you specify. Then just do something like document.form.value = document.getElementById('tagId').innerHtml. Basicly you're setting a hidden form element to have the value of the div, then when you submit the page, you have the content as $_POST['formYouSetTo']. You could have the JS execute on the submit button's onclick. It should be relatively easy if you look up the exact syntax of the javascript. - Daniel ""Anthony Hiscox"" <distatica@melknight.net> wrote in message news:6dfcba5e0706151440p19d81dccrddda1633339827e5@mail.gmail.com... Hey folks, I need to pull the contents inside of a specific div out of a page, and write it to a separate file. In this instance I am taking everything inside of <div id="content"></div> tags from a wordpress blog, this will give me only the content and not the menus, or other stuff. I need to do this because the final document will be converted for viewing on a palm pilot. Is anyone aware of a simple solution to this problem, short of parsing the entire page and starting when I hit that div opening tag, and stopping when I hit the closing tag? One problem I can see with this method is that I would have to count divs inside of that div, otherwise I would end too early on. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Peace and Love, distatica. -- --------------------------------- Anthony Hiscox Video Watch Group Public Site Currently Under Development Group Members Site Fully Operational --------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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