title: Using preg_match_all to parse a html table with PHP
body: <p>I use the following PHP script to parse a table.</p>
  
  <p>It works if each element is on the same row, for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I make it work if "start tag" and "close tag" are on different rows? Like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;
  &lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>PHP script:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>function parseTable($html)
  {
    // Find the table
    preg_match("/&lt;table.*?&gt;.*?&lt;\/[\s]*table&gt;/s", $html, $table_html);
  
    // Get title for each row
    preg_match_all("/&lt;th.*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;\/[\s]*th&gt;/", $table_html[0], $matches);
    $row_headers = $matches[1];
  
    // Iterate each row
    preg_match_all("/&lt;tr.*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;\/[\s]*tr&gt;/s", $table_html[0], $matches);
  
    $table = array();
  
    foreach($matches[1] as $row_html)
    {
      preg_match_all("/&lt;td.*?&gt;(.*?)&lt;\/[\s]*td&gt;/", $row_html, $td_matches);
      $row = array();
      for($i=0; $i&lt;count($td_matches[1]); $i++)
      {
        $td = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($td_matches[1][$i]));
        $row[$row_headers[$i]] = $td;
      }
  
      if(count($row) &gt; 0)
        $table[] = $row;
    }
    return $table;
  }
  </code></pre>