Grab content in PHP

**Brunoz** · 03-12-2009

Hi
I want to grab content and put them in the PHP array, but I have a problem. Please help. I am posting my code below.

Code:

$html = '<div class="pd">
    <div class="section">
        <div class="section_title">Title text</div>
    </div>
    <div>
        <div><small>Info.</small></div>
    </div>
    <div class="section">
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
    </div>
</div>';

Any help on this.

**Praetor** · 03-12-2009

Hi
Do not know how others will solve this problem. But I have my own way, just check the following code and it will help you.

Code:

$html = '<div class="pd">
    <div class="section">
        <div class="section_title">Title text</div>
    </div>
    <div>
        <div><small>Info.</small></div>
    </div>
    <div class="section">
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
        <div><a href="#">link</a> grab content <small>12/2/2009</small></div>
    </div>
</div>';
// Skip first <div class="section">
$div1 = stripos($html,"<div class=\"section\">");
$html = str_ireplace(" ","",substr($html, stripos($html,"<div class=\"section\">",($div1+11))));

$out = arr();
$intK = 0;
//Strip away <div class="section"> and explode string into arr 1 element / row
$prt = explode("\n",substr($html, stripos($html,">")+2));
foreach ($prt as $val) {
 </div>
    if(trim($val) != "</div>") {
        $out[$intK++] = $val;
    }
}
print_r($out);

**Reegan** · 03-12-2009

Hi
The above posted solution will definitaley solve your problem, but here is another option for your to solve it. just see the part of a code and implement which you feel easy.

Code:

if(preg_match_all('~<div><a[^>]*?>[\s\S\w]*?</a>[\s]*([\s\S\w]+?)<small>([\d\s/]+)</small></div>~i',$html,$mtch)){
  echo '<pre>';
  print_r($mtch[1]);
  print_r($mtch[2]);
  echo '</pre>';
}

The output of the code in your case is something like this.

Code:

arr
(
    [0] => grab content
    [1] => grab content
    [2] => grab content
    [3] => grab content
    [4] => grab content
)
arr
(
    [0] => 12/2/2009
    [1] => 12/2/2009
    [2] => 12/2/2009
    [3] => 12/2/2009
    [4] => 12/2/2009
)