Screen scraping a two-column table with PHP

Sounds simple enough but I'm new to the whole screen scraping thing. What I have is a remote site http://www.remotesite.com (for example purposes) that has a schedule table with a structure like so:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td class="team">
      Team 1
    </td>
    <td class="team">
      Team 2
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

The table is populated with a dynamic range of entries depending on the the number of games going that day where Team 1 vs Team 2 etc.

I've built my scraper to get a list of all the teams listed in the table and it works successfully. Here's the code:

<?php
// Load Simple DOM
    include_once("simple_html_dom.php");
    
// Scrape the Schedule
    libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $html = file_get_html("http://www.remotesite.com/schedule.htm");
    
    // Load HTML
        $dom->loadHTML($html);
        $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);

    // Get all the Teams
        $my_xpath_query = "//table//td[contains(@class, 'team')]";
        $result_rows = $xpath->query($my_xpath_query);

And to echo the scrape I have this code:

<?php
    // Display the schedule
        foreach ($result_rows as $result_object){
            echo $result_object->nodeValue;
        }
?>

However, what this does is echo out the teams like so:

Team1Team2Team3Team4Team5Team6 etc, etc.

It is getting the pairs of teams that are playing against each other in the correct order but what I need to do is essentially echo out the table the same way I'm fetching it.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!

Solution

Based on your answers to my questions, I'd suggest just doing something like this:

$rows = '';
$teams = array();

// Pull team names into array
foreach ($result_rows as $result_object){
   $teams[] = $result_object->nodeValue;
}

// Extract two teams per table row
while(count($teams)){
   $matchup = array_splice($teams, 0, 2);
   $rows .= '<tr><td>'.implode('</td><td>', $matchup).'</td></tr>';
}

// Write out the table
echo "<table>$rows</table>';