How to parse Zabbix output in a PHP script

[recyclerx]

Hi. I want to write a custom PHP script to extract information from the ZABBIX server such that it can display message notifications in our intranet website when a router goes down. The output I want is located on the Overview page. If I can access this page then I can parse the html data to identify such information. I need to programatically login with the php script and parse it. Can this be done? Is there a better way to approach this?

Our ZABBIX version is 1.6.2

Thanks a lot for the help!