HTML Table

bakame/html-table is a small PHP package that allows you to parse, import and manipualte tabular data represented as HTML Table. Once installed you will be able to do the following:

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$table = Parser::new()
    ->tableHeader(['rank', 'move', 'team', 'player', 'won', 'drawn', 'lost', 'for', 'against', 'gd', 'points'])
    ->parseFile('https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/tables');

$table
    ->filter(fn (array $row) => (int) $row['points'] >= 10)
    ->sorted(fn (array $rowA, array $rowB) => (int) $rowB['for'] <=> (int) $rowA['for'])
    ->fetchPairs('team', 'for');

// returns 
// [
//  "Brighton" => "15"
//  "Man City" => "14"
//  "Tottenham" => "13"
//  "Liverpool" => "12"
//  "West Ham" => "10"
//  "Arsenal" => "9"
// ]

System Requirements

league\csv >= 9.11.0 library is required.

Installation

Use composer:

composer require bakame/html-table

Documentation

The Parser can convert a file (a PHP stream or a Path with an optional context like fopen) or an HTML document into a League\Csv\TabularData implementing object. Once converted you can use all the methods and feature made available by the interface (see ResultSet) for more information.

The Parser itself is immutable, whenever you change a configuration option a new instance is returned.

The Parser constructor is private to instantiate the object you are required to use the new method instead

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()
    ->ignoreTableHeader()
    ->ignoreXmlErrors()
    ->withoutFormatter()
    ->tableCaption('This is a beautiful table');

parseHtml and parseFile

To extract and parse your table use either the parseHtml or parseFile methods. If parsing is not possible a ParseError exception will be thrown.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new();

$table = $parser->parseHtml('<table>...</table>');
$table = $parser->parseFile('path/to/html/file.html');

parseHtml parses an HTML page represented by:

a string,
a Stringable object,
a DOMDocument,
a DOMElement,
or a SimpleXMLElement

whereas parseFile works with:

a filepath,
or a PHP readable stream.

Both methods return a Table instance which implements the League\Csv\TabularDataReader interface and also give access to the table caption if present via the getCaption method.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$html = <<<HTML
<div>
<table>
    <caption>Songs</caption>
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Title</th>
            <th>Singer</th>
            <th>Country</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>Nakei Nairobi</td>
            <td>Mbilia Bel</td>
            <td rowspan="3">DR Congo</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Muvaro</td>
            <td>Zaiko Langa Langa</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Nzinzi</td>
            <td>Emeneya</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
</div>
HTML;

$table = Parser::new()->parseHtml($html);
$table->getCaption(); //returns 'Songs'
$table->getHeader();  //returns ['Title','Singer', 'Country']
$table->nth(2); //returns ["Title" => "Nzinzi", "Singer" => "Emeneya", "Country" => "DR Congo"]
json_encode($table->slice(0, 1));
//{"caption":"Songs","header":["Title","Singer","Country"],"rows":[{"Title":"Nakei Nairobi","Singer":"Mbilia Bel","Country":"DR Congo"}]}

Default configuration

By default, when calling the Parser::new() named constructor the parser will:

try to parse the first table found in the page
expect the table header row to be the first tr found in the thead section of your table
exclude the table thead section when extracting the table content.
ignore XML errors.
have no formatter attached.
have no default caption to used if none is present in the table.

Each of the following settings can be changed to improve the conversion against your business rules:

tablePosition and tableXpathPosition

Selecting the table to parse in the HTML page can be done using two (2) methods Parser::tablePosition and Parser::tableXpathPosition

If you know the table position in the page in relation with its integer offset or if you know it's id attribute value you should use Parser::tablePosition otherwise favor Parser::tableXpathPosition which expects an xpath expression. If the expression is valid, and a list of table is found, the first result will be returned.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()->tablePosition('table-id'); // parses the <table id='table-id'>
$parser = Parser::new()->tablePosition(3); // parses the 4th table of the page
$parser = Parser::new()->tableXPathPosition("//main/div/table");
//parse the first table that matches the xpath expression

Parser::tableXpathPosition and Parser::tablePosition override each other. It is recommended to use one or the other but not both at the same time.

tableCaption

You can optionally define a caption for your table if none is present or found during parsing.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()->tableCaption('this is a generated caption');
$parser = Parser::new()->tableCaption(null);  // remove any default caption set

tableHeader, tableHeaderPosition, ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

The following settings configure the Parser in relation to the table header. By default, the parser will try to parse the first tr tag found in the thead section of the table. But you can override this behaviour using one of these settings:

tableHeaderPosition

Tells where to locate and resolve the table header

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;
use Bakame\HtmlTable\Section;

$parser = Parser::new()->tableHeaderPosition(Section::Thead, 3);
// header is the 4th row in the <thead> table section

The method uses the Bakame\HtmlTable\Section enum to designate which table section to use to resolve the header

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Section;

enum Section
{
    case thead;
    case tbody;
    case tfoot;
    case tr;
}

If Section::tr is used, tr tags will be used independently of their section. The second argument is the table header tr offset; it defaults to 0 (ie: the first row).

ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

Instructs the parser to resolve or not the table header using tableHeaderPosition configuration. If no resolution is done, no header will be included in the returned Table instance.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()->ignoreTableHeader();  // no table header will be resolved
$parser = Parser::new()->resolveTableHeader(); // will attempt to resolve the table header

tableHeader

You can specify directly the header of your table and override any other table header related configuration with this configuration

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;
use Bakame\HtmlTable\Section;

$parser = Parser::new()->tableHeader(['rank', 'team', 'winner']);

If you specify a non-empty array as the table header, it will take precedence over any other table header related options.

Because it is a tabular data each cell MUST be unique otherwise an exception will be thrown

You can skip or re-arrange the source columns by skipping them by their offsets and/or by re-ordering the offsets.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;
use Bakame\HtmlTable\Section;

$parser = Parser::new()->tableHeader([3 => 'rank',  7 => 'winner', 5 => 'team']);
// only 3 column will be extracted the 4th, 6th and 8th columns
// and re-arrange as 'rank' first and 'team' last
// if a column is missing its value will be PHP `null` type

includeSection and excludeSection

Tells which section should be parsed based on the Section enum

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;
use Bakame\HtmlTable\Section;

$parser = Parser::new()->includeSection(Section::Tbody);  // thead and tfoot are included during parsing
$parser = Parser::new()->excludeSection(Section::Tr, Section::Tfoot); // table direct tr children and tfoot are not included during parsing

By default, the thead section is not parse. If a thead row is selected to be the header, it will be parsed independently of this setting.

⚠️Tips: to be sure of which sections will be modified, first remove all previous setting before applying your configuration as shown below:

- Parser::new()->includeSection(Section::tbody);
+ Parser::new()->excludeSection(...Section::cases())->includeSection(Section::tbody);

The first call will still include the tfoot and the tr sections, whereas the second call remove any previous setting guaranting that only the tbody if present will be parsed.

withFormatter and withoutFormatter

Adds or remove a record formatter applied to the data extracted from the table before you can access it. The header is not affected by the formatter if it is defined.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()->withFormatter($formatter); // attach a formatter to the parser
$parser = Parser::new()->withoutFormatter();        // removed the attached formatter if it exists

The formatter closure signature should be:

function (array $record): array;

If a header was defined or specified, the submitted record will have the header definition set, otherwise an array list is provided.

The following formatter will work on any table content as long as it is defined as a string.

$formatter = fn (array $record): array => array_map(strtolower(...), $record);
// the following formatter will convert all the fields from your table to lowercase.

The following formatter will only work if the table has a header attached to it with a column named count.

$formatter = function (array $record): array {
   $record['count'] = (int) $record['count'];
   
   return $record;
}
// the following formatter will convert the data of all count column into integer..

ignoreXmlErrors and failOnXmlErrors

Tells whether the parser should ignore or throw in case of malformed HTML content.

use Bakame\HtmlTable\Parser;

$parser = Parser::new()->ignoreXmlErrors();   // ignore the XML errors
$parser = Parser::new()->failOnXmlErrors(3); // throw on XML errors

Testing

The library:

has a PHPUnit test suite
has a coding style compliance test suite using PHP CS Fixer.
has a code analysis compliance test suite using PHPStan.

To run the tests, run the following command from the project folder.

composer test

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email nyamsprod@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

ignace nyamagana butera
All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

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HTML Table

System Requirements

Installation

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parseHtml and parseFile

Default configuration

tablePosition and tableXpathPosition

tableCaption

tableHeader, tableHeaderPosition, ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

tableHeaderPosition

ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

tableHeader

includeSection and excludeSection

withFormatter and withoutFormatter

ignoreXmlErrors and failOnXmlErrors

Testing

Security

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HTML Table

System Requirements

Installation

Documentation

parseHtml and parseFile

Default configuration

tablePosition and tableXpathPosition

tableCaption

tableHeader, tableHeaderPosition, ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

tableHeaderPosition

ignoreTableHeader and resolveTableHeader

tableHeader

includeSection and excludeSection

withFormatter and withoutFormatter

ignoreXmlErrors and failOnXmlErrors

Testing

Security

Credits

License