I have opened an HTML file using
file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/file.html')
and want to parse the line including "ParseThis":
<h1 class=\"header\">ParseThis<\/h1>
As you can see, it's within an h1 tag (the first h1 tag from the file). How can I get the text "ParseThis"?
You can use DOM for this.
// Load remote file, supress parse errors
libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE);
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.example.com/file.html');
libxml_clear_errors();
// use XPath to find all nodes with a class attribute of header
$xp = new DOMXpath($dom);
$nodes = $xp->query('//h1[@class="header"]');
// output first item's content
echo $nodes->item(0)->nodeValue;
Also see
Marking this CW because I have answered this before, but I am too lazy to find the duplicate
Use this function.
<?php
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end)
{
$string = " ".$string;
$ini = strpos($string,$start);
if ($ini == 0)
return "";
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}
$data = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/file.html');
echo get_string_between($data, '<h1 class=\"header\">', '<\/h1>');
get_string_between :)Since it is the first h1 tag, getting it should be fairly trivial:
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$h1 = $doc->getElementsByTagName('h1');
echo $h1->item(0)->nodeValue;
