Preg match text in php between html tags

Question

Hello I would like to use preg_match in PHP to parse the \"Desired text\" out of the following from a html document

 Desired text &         


        

Answer 1

What if the string you're matching has multiple lines and is:

<p class="review"> Desired text1 </p>
<p class="review"> Desired text2 </p>
<p class="review"> Desired text3 </p>

That pattern would match once, and the match would be everything in the string.

I think a better pattern is:

"'<p class=\"review\">([^<]*)</p>'si"

Answer 2

if you want to return multiple matches then need to use preg_match_all(). You then loop through the second result group ($match[1]) to get just the content between tags.

$source = "<p class=\"review\"> Desired text1 </p>".
"<p class=\"review\"> Desired text2 </p>".
"<p class=\"review\"> Desired text3 </p>";


    preg_match_all("'<p class=\"review\">(.*?)</p>'si", $source, $match);

    foreach($match[1] as $val)
    {
        echo $val."<br>";


    }

Outputs:

Desired text1
Desired text2
Desired text3 

Answer 3

preg_match("'<p class=\"review\">(.*?)</p>'si", $source, $match);
if($match) echo "result=".$match[1];