Print out div tags with content.

[rman]

I am a beginner in PHP. I am working with regex in a form where it will display all div tags with content. I am having touble displyaing the div tags. I have looked on the internet and haven't found what I need. Most want to use DOM and I get that but I want to use regex instead. I am trying to understand the regex. If any one can can help I would appreciate it. I believe the area I am having trouble with is the pattern match. I did get some information from PHP site

 

Thanks;

r

 

Here is the area  of code I think needs changing:

 while(!feof($fp)) {
          $line = fgets($fp);

	  $pattern = '/[<div>](.*?)(<\/div>)/';
          $matches = preg_match_all($pattern, $line, $found);
	 if ($matches >= 1 ) {
             echo $found[1][0] . "\n";

          }  
      }

I also have use /<\s*div[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*\/\s*div>/ and /<div[^>]++>(.*?)<\/div>/s. But they did not work either.

[Psycho]

Do you realize that if the opening and closing div tags are not on the same line it won't find them if you are only processing one line at a time? Plus, you have the added problem of DIV tags that are within other div tags. That is why RegEx is not a good solution for this. Plus, what if the div tag has paramters, e.g. <div class="something">?

 

So, it would get really complicated to get a good solution with RegEx. But, based on what you are trying to do, this would work better

 

$pattern = '/<div>(.*?)<\/div>/';

[rman]

Psysco

 

Thank you for your post. I have used that pattern before and it only returns links. The pattern in the code I gave does give some div tags but does not give the whole tag. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Thanks again,

r.

[Psycho]

Perhaps you should provide some example strings that are not providing the results you expect. The code I provided works exactly as expected based upon the requirements you provided

 

 

$line = "This is <div>some text</div> with a <div>div tag</div> in it.";
 
$pattern = '/<div>(.*?)<\/div>/';
$matches = preg_match_all($pattern, $line, $found);
echo "<pre>" . print_r($found, 1) . "</pre>";

 

Output:

 

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <div>some text</div>
            [1] => <div>div tag</div>
        )
 
    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => some text
            [1] => div tag
        )
)