preg_match? how to read within the td tags

[gilgalbiblewhee]

I have a table in html which I need to convert to a database table for MySQL (I use HeidiSQL).
SO there are a few td tags and then a tr tag indicating a new record. How would I be able to insert them in the db table? DO I use preg_match? How would it be written.

PHP Code:

preg_match_all('|id="(.*)">|U', $contents_of_page, $idout, PREG_SET_ORDER); 
    preg_match_all("|<[^>]+>(.*)</[^>]+>|U", $contents_of_page, $out, PREG_SET_ORDER); 


[gilgalbiblewhee]

I need the preg_match innerHTML of <td></td>.

[curtiss]

Regexps are not my strong suit, but I'll give it a shot:

PHP Code:

preg_match_all('#<td[^>]*?>(.*?)<\/td>#',$contents_of_page,$idout,PREG_SET_ORDER); 


If the opening and closing tag (and all of the information in between the two) are not always going to be on the same line, you will need to add the "s" modifier to make the regex read the whole input as a single line.