any html/css parsing library for ruby & PHP?

Question

I am about to finish my script that parses/scrapes website using mechanize&ruby.

I need to port my script to PHP in the future.

My question is

• if there is any library available for both ruby and php or
• if anybody can recommend any other approach to this?

Answer 1

There's no PHP equivalent of Ruby and Mechanize.

However, Zend_Framework offers some great scraping-related libraries including

• Zend_URI and Zend_HTTP_Client
• Zend_Dom

Answer 2

As standard, PHP comes with several tools for parsing XML (and the DOM one can cope with a lot of badly formed HTML)

See

http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/refs.xml.php

C.

Answer 3

For DOM manipulation in PHP use the DOMDocument class

Simple and easy :)

Answer 4

Another DOM manipulation tool for php is phpQuery.