How to get a substring between two strings in PHP?

Answer 1

I had some problems with the get_string_between() function, used here. So I came with my own version. Maybe it could help people in the same case as mine.

protected function string_between($string, $start, $end, $inclusive = false) { 
   $fragments = explode($start, $string, 2);
   if (isset($fragments[1])) {
      $fragments = explode($end, $fragments[1], 2);
      if ($inclusive) {
         return $start.$fragments[0].$end;
      } else {
         return $fragments[0];
      }
   }
   return false;
}

Answer 2

use strstr php function twice.

$value = "This is a great day to be alive";
$value = strstr($value, "is"); //gets all text from needle on
$value = strstr($value, "be", true); //gets all text before needle
echo $value;

outputs: "is a great day to"

Answer 3

Got best solution for this from tonyspiro

function getBetween($content,$start,$end){
   $r = explode($start, $content);
   if (isset($r[1])){
       $r = explode($end, $r[1]);
       return $r[0];
   }
   return '';
}

Answer 4

Try this, Its work for me, get data between test word.

$str = "Xdata test HD01 test 1data";  
$result = explode('test',$str);   
print_r($result);
echo $result[1];

Answer 5

If you're using foo as a delimiter, then look at explode()

Answer 6

Use:

<?php

$str = "...server daemon started with pid=6849 (parent=6848).";
$from = "pid=";
$to = "(";

echo getStringBetween($str,$from,$to);

function getStringBetween($str,$from,$to)
{
    $sub = substr($str, strpos($str,$from)+strlen($from),strlen($str));
    return substr($sub,0,strpos($sub,$to));
}

?>