preg _match ?? is there something I am doing wrong.

[jwwceo]

Hello,

 

I have a piece of code which contains the following:

 

<h1 class="productTitle"> Solar grid</h1>
					<div class="image"> <img src="../images/IGT.jpg" alt="Solar grid" /> </div>

					<div class="story">
XXX A BUNCH OF PLAIN TEXT XXX

		</div>

 

and I am trying to parse a bunch of similar pages:

 

I have the following preg_match code:

 

$title = '/class="productTitle">(.+?)<\/h1>/';
$description = '/class="story">(.+?)<\/div>/';


preg_match($title,$source,$match1);

preg_match($description,$source,$match2);

 

The two search terms are identical, but only the top preg_match is returning a value in $match1, $match2 is empty.

 

Is there something about this preg_match code I am missing?? Is is because there are other </div>'s on the page and not just one, like there are with the h1 tag??

 

Any help would be awesome

 

James

 

[nrg_alpha]

Your second pattern lacks the s modifier, so (.+?) will not get far, as it will not include newlines. I suspect this is something along the lines you are after:

 

Example:

$source = <<<EOF
<h1 class="productTitle"> Solar grid</h1>
                  <div class="image"> <img src="../images/IGT.jpg" alt="Solar grid" /> <>


                  <div class="story">
XXX A BUNCH OF PLAIN TEXT XXX


         <>
EOF;

$title = '#class="productTitle">(.+?)</h1>#';
$description = '#class="story">(.+?)<>#s';


preg_match($title,$source,$match1);
echo $match1[1] . "<br />\n";
preg_match($description,$source,$match2);
echo $match2[1];

 

Granted, I think it would be better to use DOM for this sort of thing (regex can be easily 'fooled' if the pattern isn't well structured).

 

EDIT - Seems like the closing tags in the snippet are not displaying properly in the snippet post.. Will see if this is a reproducable bug and if so, will notify the staff about it.