echoing data inside html tags

[willsavin]

hi all,

I have been trying to write some code for php footer recently and have stumbled upon some issues..

 

What i'm trying to do is find a specific html tag within a page. E.g <h1 align="right">blahblah</h1>

and echo the data inside of that found tag E.g blahblah

 

I can never figure out this regex stuff!  ???

 

Thanks in advance

willsavin

[nrg_alpha]

If you are looking for the contents of h1 tag specifically for example, you can use:

 

$str = '<h1 align="right">blahblah</h1>';
preg_match('#<h1[^>]*>([^<]+)</h1>#', $str, $match);
echo $match[1]; // outputs blahblah

 

As for regex, I would suggest taking the time to learn it.. comes in veeeeery handy!

 

EDIT: and before you ask for some good links / references.. I'll spare Effigy the time and simply offer here as a good starting point.