Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/15/07 14:36

Captain Paralytic wrote:
> On 15 Oct, 11:17, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Captain Paralytic wrote:
>>> On 15 Oct, 03:37, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>> OK, I give up here. I am DEFINITELY not a Regex expert, and have been
>>>> working on this for hours with no luck.
>>>> Basically I need to parse a page for certain information which will be
>>>> fed back into CURL to post to a site. I need to find four types of tags
>>>> on the page:
>>>> <input type=hidden name=a1 value=b1>
>>>> <input type=text name=a2>
>>>> <input type=submit name=a3 value=b3>
>>>> <select name=a4>
>>>> I don't need any other tags.
>>>> From the hidden and submit types, I need name and value. From the text
>>>> and select types, I just need the name.
>>>> I can assume the attributes will always show up in this order, but there
>>>> may be other things between the < and > delimiters. Additionally, the
>>>> actual type and name may have single or double quotes around them, or
>>>> neither.
>>>> Does anyone have some code for this? It doesn't have to be all one regex.
>>>> TIA.
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>>>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>>>> Jerry Stuckle
>>>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>>>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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>>> Could you use the php dom functionality for this?
>>> Wouldn't it be good if php had the equivalent of
>>> getElementsByTagName()!
>> Hi, Paul,
>>
>> How I wish I could - it was the first thing I tried. However, this page
>> is not well formed html, and DOM throws up all over it.
>>
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>> Remove the "x" from my email address
>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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>
> Of course, when I said: "Wouldn't it be good if php had the equivalent
> of getElementsByTagName()!", I meant that it would be good if its
> version was as tolerant as javascript's one.
>
>

Very true, Paul!

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