Get contents of a URL and show only specific text

[kapz22]

Hi All,

 

I am fairly new to PHP.

 

I want to write some code that will get content from specific classes that are in a HTML page.

 

I.e.

 

<p>text 1</p>

<p class="description">text2</p>

<p>text3</p>

 

I want to just output text where class = description.

 

How would i do this?

[Laash]

Hi

 

You can use jQuery to do that in a much easier way.

You will need the jquery library from here: http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Current_Release

 

And the code:

<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function() {

var temp=$(".description").html();

alert("description is"+temp);

});

[kapz22]

Sorry, i should have been a bit more specific.

 

E.g.

I want to retrieve a URL i.e. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/......

From that URL, i just want to get the text from the news story.

 

How would i go about it.

 

[kicken]

Use DomDocument to parse the html into a dom tree, then you can traverse it and find what you need.