Help parsing artist,songname and image url from remote html

Hi all there is a remote html page that has artist,songname and image url . I want to get these infromation when ever i pull that page . could any one show me how this can be done.Thanks

Note: the information that i want to extract are shown in bold.
Note: the html is dynamic and changes

Html of page that i want to pull every few seconds:
<table border=0 width="280" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding=5><tr><td align="center" width="80">
<a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.somesite.com/static/artists/kiosk.jpg" border="0"></a></td><td width="100" style="font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#000000;">artist<br>"songname"</td><td valign="top"><table><tr><td><table><tr><td><a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.somesite.com/static/artists/rj_box.jpg" width="30" height="30" border="0"></a></td><td><font size="1" face="Arial" color="red"><b>RADIO<br>ABCDE</b></font></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.somesite.com/listen" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.somesite.com/images/nwp96k.gif"></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.somesite.com/listen" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.somesite.com/images/nwp128k.gif"></a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table

What do you mean the HTML is dynamic and changes? Do you mean the bold values change, or does the actual page HTML change?

If the HTML changes each time, there is no way you can write code to parse it.

If the HTML is constant, you could use preg_match() to find instances of /static/artists/(.*).jpg and (.*)<br />"(.*)" to extract those data elements, assuming no other text in the HTML matches these patterns.

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Originally Posted by The Hobo

What do you mean the HTML is dynamic and changes? Do you mean the bold values change, or does the actual page HTML change?

If the HTML changes each time, there is no way you can write code to parse it.

If the HTML is constant, you could use preg_match() to find instances of /static/artists/(.*).jpg and (.*)<br />"(.*)" to extract those data elements, assuming no other text in the HTML matches these patterns.

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Thanks for your reply. The html is the same only the bold parts changes. so i want the php some how pull that html page and then extract the bold data.But i don't know how to tell php to get that html and then get the bold data for me.Hope some one show me how this can be done.Thanks

Note: the html is in remote server and i have no controle over it

Are you using PHP 5?

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Originally Posted by visualAd

Are you using PHP 5?

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Thanks for reply.The server that i want to install the script is running PHP Version 4.4.0.

i tried this solution but it doesn't output the image url for me . could any one tell me what i am doing wrong and how to fix it.Thanks

PHP Code:

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<?PHP
$html = file_get_contents("http://services.remotesite.com/rss.php?html=280");
preg_match("/<img border=\"0\" src=\"(.*)\" border=\"0\">$/", $html, $urls);
//preg_match("<td width=\"100\" (.*)>(.*)</td>", $html, $tdmatch);
preg_match("/<td width=\"100\" (.*)>(.*)<\/td>/", $html, $tdmatch);   

echo "<pre>";
var_dump($urls);
var_dump($tdmatch);
echo "</pre>";

?>

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