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<div>A/C:front<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Anti-Lock Brakes<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Passenger Airbag<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Power Mirrors<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Power Steering<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Power Windows<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Driver Airbag<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>No Accidents<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/
</span>Power Door Locks<span style="color:red;margin:8px">/</span>
</div>

Appears like this on website :

A/C:front/Anti-Lock Brakes/Passenger Airbag/Power Mirrors/Power Steering/Power Windows/Driver Airbag/No Accidents/Power Door Locks/

I used $content = file_get_contents('url'); and now i need to shift through the data.

I need to fetch each one of the options above and put them in an array or something like :

$option = ("A/C:front","Anti-Lock Brakes","Passenger Airbag",....);

Any idea how to do this using php ?

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Provide full website contents or at least its URL. You might want to use DOM+XPath here. –  Paulo Freitas Nov 13 '13 at 19:32
    
Maybe it will be easier if you use 'simplehtmldom' or something similar. –  Nikitas Nov 13 '13 at 19:34
    
@user2984982 Can you explain why accepted then unaccepted my answer? Perhaps I can help you more... Just because you've accepted a wrong answer to the given question. –  Paulo Freitas Nov 16 '13 at 3:14

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Sounds like you need DOMDocument. Specifically, the getElementsByTagName function. So using your example, I suggest this. Please adjust to suit your needs:

// Get the contents of the URL. 
$content = file_get_contents('url');

// Parse the HTML using `DOMDocument`
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($content);

// Search the parsed DOM structure for `span` elements.
$option = array();    
foreach($dom->getElementsByTagName('span') as $span){
  $option[] = $span->nodeValue;
}

// Dumps the values in `option` for review.    
echo '<pre>';
print_r($option);
echo '</pre>';
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Why not use the loadHTMLFile() method instead? :) –  Amal Murali Nov 13 '13 at 19:41
    
Because I am coding an example using the original poster’s original example so they can see where they start off and the rest happens. ;) –  JakeGould Nov 13 '13 at 19:45
    
hi , I'm unable to get it to work . here is the url by the way : sayuri.co.jp/used-cars/… –  user2984982 Nov 13 '13 at 20:09
    
Result : pastebin.com/eknq8YfN –  user2984982 Nov 13 '13 at 20:11
    
It’s a coding example based on the limited info that was provided. Now—as I have said—please adjust to suit your needs. –  JakeGould Nov 13 '13 at 21:13
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With the source code everything is easier:

<?php

$dom = new DOMDocument;
@$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.sayuri.co.jp/used-cars/B37659-Nissan-Tiida%20Latio-japanese-used-cars');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$nodes = iterator_to_array($xpath->query('//h4/following-sibling::div')->item(0)->childNodes);
$items = array_map(function ($node) {
        return $node->nodeValue;
    }, array_filter($nodes, function ($node) {
        return $node->nodeValue != '/';
    }));
var_dump($items);

This gave me the following:

array(9) {
  [0]=>
  string(9) "A/C:front"
  [2]=>
  string(16) "Anti-Lock Brakes"
  [4]=>
  string(16) "Passenger Airbag"
  [6]=>
  string(13) "Power Mirrors"
  [8]=>
  string(14) "Power Steering"
  [10]=>
  string(13) "Power Windows"
  [12]=>
  string(13) "Driver Airbag"
  [14]=>
  string(12) "No Accidents"
  [16]=>
  string(16) "Power Door Locks"
}

You might want to use array_values() on $items to reset the indexes. That's all!

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