extract text from html-fil

[torvald_helmer]

I have a html-file, which I want to extract the some content, and not any tag's.

 

I thoguht I might start like this:

$file = file("test.html");

foreach ($file as $line) {

 

some code....

 

}

 

A example is this line is the file:

<tr><td class="felt">Car</td><td>Mercedes<br/></td></tr>

 

How can I get just 'Car' and 'Mercedes' from this line?

 

Has anyone got an idea? I really don't know where to go further...

Need help!

[MadTechie]

2 options spring to mind

 

strpos & substr

 

or RegEx (ie preg_grep)

 

Edit: fixed preg-grep link

[Intelly XAD]

In this case, I would mess a little with explode

explode(splitter, haystack);

 

When you explode, you chop a string in an array. so when you explode on > you can get the usefull things out with the keys...

For example:

 

<?php
$string = 'Here are more HTML tags ... <td>Example</td> ... Here are more HTML tags';
$string = explode('<td>', $string); // key 1 contains 'Example</td>' (key 0 is empty)
$string = $string[1];
$string = explode('</td>', $string); // key 0 contains 'Example'
$string = $string[0];
?>

 

Though you need to be carefull with the keys

You can write simple functions for this to make it an easier job, hope this function is usefull

 

Grtz