Just a little prototype for converting html tables to associative arrays

table2array.php

<?php

class Table2Array
{
    public static function convert2HorizontalTable($html)
    {
        $dom = new DOMDocument;
        @$dom->loadHTML($html);
        $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
        $tables = array();
        foreach ($xpath->query('//table') as $table) {
            $header = array();
            $headcells = $xpath->query('*/tr|tr', $table);
            foreach($headcells as $th)
            {
                array_push($header, trim($th->textContent));
            }
            $object = array();
            foreach($xpath->query("*/tr|tr", $table) as $tr)
            {
                $currentName = '';
                $cells = $xpath->query('td|th', $tr);
                if(count($cells) === count($headcells)) 
                {
                    $i = 0;
                    foreach($cells as $td)
                    {
                        $content = trim($td->textContent);
                        if($i === 0)
                        {
                            $currentName = $content;
                            $object[$currentName] = array();
                        } else {
                            if(array_key_exists($i, $header))
                            {
                                $object[$currentName][$header[$i]] = $content;
                            }
                        }
                        $i++;
                    }
                }
            }
            $object = array_filter($object, function($item) {
                return !empty($item);
            });
            if(!empty($object)) {
                array_push($tables, $object);
            }
        }
        return $tables;
    }

    public static function mergeTables($tables)
    {
        $values = array();
        foreach($tables as $table)
        {
            foreach($table as $key => $items)
            {
                $values[$key] = $items;
            }
        }
        return $values;
    }
}

?>