[SOLVED] preg_match help

[adv]

<?php
$nume="";
$str="<span>welcome </span><span class=blu12 style=font-weight: bold;>name lastname</span>";
preg_match('/<span>(.*?)<\/span><span>(.*?)<\/span>/', $str, $al);
if(count($al) != 0) { 
	$nume = $al[1];
}

echo $nume;
?>

 

dunno how to quite put this

as u see from my code ..  i want to echo  welcome name lastname ; but dunno how preg_match quite works .

from the first span to the last span to echo it

[rajivgonsalves]

are you trying to extract the data from the string ? if so this should work

 

<?php
$nume="";
$str="<span>welcome </span><span class=blu12 style=font-weight: bold;>name lastname</span>";
preg_match('/<span[^>]+(.*?)<\/span>/', $str, $al);
if(count($al) != 0) { 
	$nume = $al[0];
}

echo $nume;
?>

[adv]

yes that is the trick  .. i can`t just understand how with all the signs ]^*()  (.*?)  where ca i find all this signs explicationss?

[rajivgonsalves]

you can checkout the following link

 

http://php.net/preg_match

[adv]

i tried that .. nothing ..

[effigy]

See the Resources. There's a cheat sheet there.

[adv]

thanks alot effigy