PHP - Extracting Http Urls From A Text File

Dear all,
is there any library that supports text extraction from docx,doc, excel, pdf, etc formats like Apache POI does on Java?

Or should I port Apache POI classes to PHP code?

best regards,
ethereal1m

I have a large text file that I need to search and extract text from.

I have some code that somewhat works but is not good for what I need because it only reads one line at a time.

I need to be able to echo all code between two strings and continue scanning the entire document.

I am attaching the TXT file that is being read by the script:

Here is the script:

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<?
$searchthis = "Problem:";
$search="Check:";
$matches = array();

$handle = @fopen("1numbers.txt", "r")or die("can't open file");

if ($handle)
{
    while (!feof($handle))
    {
        $buffer = fgets($handle);
        if(strpos($buffer, $searchthis) !== FALSE)
            echo "<br>". $buffer."<br>";
     if(strpos($buffer, $search) !== FALSE)
            echo "<br>". $buffer."<br>";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>
you can see what this script outputs by visiting this link:

http://yourautofix.com/data/data.php

but my problem is it only outputs one line of text that finds the search match.

I need it to output all lines of text between two matches for example any text between "Problem:" and "Check:" should be Echo'd

and any text between "Check:" and "Likely:" should be echo'd

there may be 1 line or 20 lines of text between the tags... I need to print all lines between the 2 determined search strings and then continue through the text file displaying all matches between the search strings in a  large file.

any thoughts on how I can get this done or point me in the right direction?

Thanks for any input on this

Paul

Hi

I'm learning php and trying to write a script to extract registration information from a large text file. Sadly my meagre knowledge of php is letting me down a bit. It's a case of knowing what you want the script to do but not having the knowlege of how to 'say it'.

So i was hoping that if I posted my code here someone could either give me a few pointers on where i am going wrong or suggest  a better way.

The text file data luckily has a recurring format as follows (for brevity i've only included one entry, which contains made up information):



From:   bella_done@yahoo.co.uk
Sent:   02 February 2011 22:50
To:   Jonny tum, patsy fells, dingly bongo
Subject:   Subject: Fun Run 2010

Categories:   Fun Run

Name: Bella Donna
 Address: 14 brondle avenue
 Postcode: cd83 1rg
 Phone: 0287343510
 Email: bella_don@yahoo.co.uk
 DOB: 15/11/1945
 Half or Full: Full fun run
 How did you hear: Took part in 2010

As you can see the data has a convenient boundary at the 'from' field and the colon (or so it occurred to me) so I created my script as follows:



// the string being analysed
$the_string = "
From:

bella_done@yahoo.co.uk
Sent:

02 February 2011 22:50
To:

Jonny tum, patsy fells, dingly bongo
Subject:

Subject: Fun Run 2010

Categories:

Fun Run

Name: Bella Donna 
 Address: 14 brondle avenue 
 Postcode: cd83 1rg 
 Phone: 0287343510 
 Email: bella_don@yahoo.co.uk 
 DOB: 15/11/1945 
 Half or Full: Full fun run 
 How did you hear: Took part in 2010";

// remove all formatting to work with a clean string

$clean_string = strip_tags($the_string);



// remove form field entries from the data and replace with commas and a ZZZ boundary

$remove_fields = array("Categories:" => "","Name:" => ",","Address:" => ",","Postcode:" => ",","Phone:" => 

",","Email:" => ",","DOB:" => ",","Half or Full:" => ",","How did you hear:" => ",","From:" => "ZZZ","Sent:" => 

",","To:" => ",",  );


$new_string = strtr("$clean_string",$remove_fields);


// split the data at the boundary ZZZ

$string_to_array = explode("ZZZ", $new_string);

$new_string2 = implode("</br>",$string_to_array);

echo $new_string2; 




$myFile = "address_list.csv";
 $fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
 $stringData = $new_string2;
 fwrite($fh, $stringData);
 fclose($fh);




One major problem is when i write the new data to a csv file the csv contains spacings that cause it to be reproduced in a column form rather than as separate fields for each comma boundary.

So can anyone suggest either

a) a better way of extracting the data from the text file (doesn't need to be 100% clean and perfect)

b) How can i stop the spaces in the csv (i thought i would have fixed this when i stripped the tags from the string at the start??).

Any help would be greatly received by a newbie phper.

It's my first shot at performing anything moderately taxing so if I've made some blaring oversites I would very much welcome your wisdom!

Thank you

Drongo

Hi!

I have .swf files that have images in them. I can view them with swf decompiler on my computer but i need to have this functionality on my website. Is there any way to extract images from .swf file with php?

I'm normally fairly proficient with PHP, but I haven't done any coding in quite a while, so I'm a little rusty.

I have an entire page of text from which I need to extract a single value. Here is a small portion of the page in question:

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Total Rank: 128
Total Points: 4,978
Next Rank: 20

For instance, I need to extract the values "128" "4978" and "20" and store them in variables. These values change all the time, so I'm not sure what the best way to go about this is... maybe a regular expression  ? If that's the case, I've never been too good with them, so any help would be appreciated.