What I must to learn to parse dynamic HTML sites with PHP?

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Published on 2010-03-21T10:23:09Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 11:31 UTC
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What I must to learn to write php web-site grabber (parser)?

It must collect information from other websites, such as as weather forecast, wiki "on this day", some news and other useful and interesting "every day" information!

what i must to read for writing m3u player on php?

sorry for my bad english

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