Get parasable data out of PnW nation pages

api.php

<?php

define('PNW_JAR', '/tmp/pnwcookies.txt');
define('PNW_EMAIL', '');
define('PNW_PASS', ''); // No special chars allowed

if ((!empty($argv)) && ($argc > 1)) {
        $_GET['nation'] = $argv[1];
}

if (empty($_GET['nation'])) {
        die("Please specify a nation as a GET parameter");
}

if (!ctype_alpha($_GET['nation'])) {
        die('Please only enter alphanumeric characters, or get ss23 to fix the broken script validation');
}

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, PNW_JAR);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, PNW_JAR);

// Check if our cookie is still valid
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://politicsandwar.com/index.php?id=62&n=Gyro');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if (strpos($output, '<meta http-equiv="REFRESH"')) {
        if (!pnw_login()) {
                die("Problem logging in to PnW. API should be considered down. Go pester ss23 or something.");
        }
}

// Do the request for all the dataz
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, PNW_JAR);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, PNW_JAR);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://politicsandwar.com/index.php?id=62&n=' . $_GET['nation']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Check if the nation was valid
if (strpos($output, "/id=15533'")) {
        die("Invalid nation specified");
}

// Parse the output
$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTML($output); // Someone needs to get sheepy to fix his broken HTML
$xpath = new DomXpath($doc);
$dommy = $xpath->query("//*[@class='nationtable']/*");

$cities = array();

// Each of these is some kind of informational thingy
$first = true;
foreach ($dommy as $info) {
        if ($first) {
                // These are <th>'s providing information about the nations
                foreach ($info->childNodes as $child) {
                        if ($first) {
                                $first = false; // Notice this is reused more than once, but a single var works fine
                                continue; // Skip first child, it's blank
                        }
                        $cities[] = array('Name' => $child->textContent);
                }
                continue;
        }

        // We're not on the first, so real data is here now
        $first = true;
        $i = 0;
        foreach ($info->childNodes as $child) {
                if ($first) {
                        $first = false;
                        $currentAttribute = $child->firstChild->textContent;
                        //var_dump($child->firstChild); var_dump($child);die();
                        continue;
                }
                $cities[$i++][$currentAttribute] = $child->textContent;
        }
}

// Add a count field
$total = count($cities) - 1;
$final = array();
$final['count'] = $total;
$final['cities'] = $cities;

echo json_encode($final);

function pnw_login() {
        // will log in and fill the cookie jar with delicious cookies
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, PNW_JAR);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, PNW_JAR);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://politicsandwar.com/login/');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $output = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);
        $sesh = substr($output, strpos($output, 'sesh" value="') + 13, 32);

        // Do the post
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, PNW_JAR);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, PNW_JAR);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://politicsandwar.com/login/');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'email=' . PNW_EMAIL . '&password=' . PNW_PASS . '&rememberme=1&loginform=Login&sesh=' . $sesh);
        $output = curl_exec($ch);
        curl_close($ch);

        return (strpos($output, 'You have successfully logged in.') !== FALSE);
}