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PHP Architect · Vol 17, Issue 7 · July 2018

Pro Parsing Techniques with PHP, Part Two: Fault Tolerance

by Michael Schrenk

This article is part two of a three-part series on parsing text with PHP. The previous installment dealt with basic parsing techniques; particularly how parsing becomes easier when you limit your parsing toolkit to only a few, well chosen, tools that you'll use over and over again. This article is dedicated to fault tolerant parsing techniques. This series will finish with the third article which describes how to use regular expressions.

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Michael Schrenk

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Michael Schrenk

Michael Schrenk has developed software that collects and processes massive amounts of data for some of the biggest news agencies in Europe and leads a competitive intelligence consultancy in Las Vegas. He consults on information security and Big Data everywhere from Moscow to Silicon Valley, and most places in between. Mike is the author of _Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers (2012, No Starch Press)_. He is a Big Data Advisory Board Member at Rutgers University, and has lectured at journalism conferences in Belgium and the Netherlands and has created several weekend data workshops for the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. Along the way, he’s been interviewed by BBC, the Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, and many others. Mike is also an eight-time speaker at the notorious DEF CON hacking conference. He may be best known for building software that over a period of a few months autonomously purchased over $13 million dollars worth of cars by adapting to real-time market conditions.

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