[SOLVED] Get tag attribute values

[The Little Guy]

I have a file that has tags like this in it:

<clp name="title" type="text"></clp>

or

<clp name="content" type="textarea"></clp>

 

attributes in the tags can be reversed just like in HTML files, I may add more attributes, but for now this is all I have. I need to find all these attributes, and get their values in these tags, so How can I do it?

 

Currently I have this to search:

 

preg_match_all("~<clp (type|name)=\"(.+?)\"><\/clp>~",$contents, $matches);

 

but... it doesn't work, it worked before I added "type" to the pattern though.

 

Thanks for the help!

[Axeia]

I don't see how adding type would kill it off if it worked with name before.

The order of your backreferences would however changes as the round () brackets mean you're capturing whatever matches inside of it.

(Which is prolly what you want if you want to be able to tell a name apart from a type)

 

Isn't the script processing the output of this regex the one at fault? Did you do a print_r( $match )  to see if it's in the format you're expecting?

[.josh]

IMO it would be "less complex" to break it down into several expressions. Example:

 

  $string = '<clp name="title" type="text"></clp>';
  preg_match('~<clp ([^>]*)>~i',$string,$tags);
  preg_match_all('~([a-z]+)="([^"]*)"~i',$tags[1],$attribs);
  echo "<pre>"; print_r($attribs);

 

 

[The Little Guy]

Thanks! that works

[Daniel0]

Why don't you just use an XML parser?