Get text between HTML tags [duplicate]

Answer 1

Using regular expressions is generally a good idea for your problem.

When you look at http://php.net/preg_match you see that $matches will be an array, since there may be more than one match. Try

print_r($matches);

to get an idea of how the result looks, and then pick the right index.

EDIT:

If there is a match, then you can get the text extracted between the parenthesis-group with

print($matches[1]);

If you had more than one parenthesis-group they would be numbered 2, 3 etc. You should also consider the case when there is no match, in which case the array will have the size of 0.

Answer 2

You could do it this way::

$h1 = preg_replace('/<h1[^>]*?>([\\s\\S]*?)<\/h1>/',
'\\1', $h1);

This will Strip off or unwrap the TEXT from the <H1></H1> HTML Tags

Answer 3

Don't parse HTML via preg_match, use this PHP class instead:

The DOMDocument class

Example:

<?php 

$html= "<p>hi</p>
<h1>H1 title</h1>
<h2>H2 title</h2>
<h3>H2 title</h3>";
 // a new dom object 
 $dom = new domDocument('1.0', 'utf-8'); 
 // load the html into the object 
 $dom->loadHTML($html); 
 //discard white space 
 $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false; 
 $hTwo= $dom->getElementsByTagName('h2'); // here u use your desired tag
 echo $hTwo->item(0)->nodeValue; 
 //will return "H2 title";
 ?>

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