regex help with getting tag content in PHP

Question

so I have the code

function getTagContent($string, $tagname) {

    $pattern = \"/<$tagname.*?>(.*)<\\/$tagname>/\";
    preg_match($pattern, $string         


        

Answer 1

try DOM

$url  = "http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/09/24/wall-street-jokes-please/";
$doc  = new DOMDocument();
$dom  = $doc->loadHTMLFile($url);
$items = $doc->getElementsByTagName('title');
for ($i = 0; $i < $items->length; $i++)
{
  echo $items->item($i)->nodeValue . "\n";
}