Parsing html ??

[funkyres]

Let's say I have the following string -

<?php
$string="some of our Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> populations receive some gene flow from the Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b>  (Pituophis catenifer deserticola). The Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b> does intergrade with the Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> to the north of us in Siskiyou";
?>

 

I want to break it up into an array like this:

<?php
$foo[]="some of our Pacific Gopher ";
$foo[]="<b>Snake</b>";
$foo[]=" populations receive some gene flow from the Great Basin Gopher ";
$foo[]="<b>Snake</b>";
$foo[]="  (Pituophis catenifer deserticola). The Great Basin Gopher ";
$foo[]="<b>Snake</b>";
$foo[]=" does intergrade with the Pacific Gopher ";
$foo[]="<b>Snake</b>";
$foo[]=" to the north of us in Siskiyou";
?>

 

The text in the bold tags won't always be the same (otherwise I could probably just use explode).

I do need to preserve the text within the bold tags, and the bold tags.

 

Any suggestions?

[drisate]

How abbout something like this

 

<?php
$check ="<b>Snake</b>";
$string="some of our Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> populations receive some gene flow from the Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b>  (Pituophis catenifer deserticola). The Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b> does intergrade with the Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> to the north of us in Siskiyou";

$str = explode ($check, $string);

foreach ($str as $array){
$new[]=$array;
$new[]=$check;
}
?>

[funkyres]

The problem is I don't know ahead of time what is in the bold tags.

I might try to use the xml DOM to do it.

[sasa]

try

<?php
$check ="<b>Snake</b>";
$sr = array('<b>','</b>');
$re = array('|||<b>','</b>|||');
$string="some of our Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> populations receive some gene flow from the Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b>  (Pituophis catenifer deserticola). The Great Basin Gopher <b>Snake</b> does intergrade with the Pacific Gopher <b>Snake</b> to the north of us in Siskiyou";

$str = explode ('|||', str_replace($sr, $re, $string));
print_r($str);
?>