Extract txt from url html

Hi,

I want to extract text from a site between certain tags,

If the tags are in the foolowing format:

<a class="classname" target="_blank"> This Text</a><span class="classname">

HTML:

How can i use php to loop through and collect "This Text"

Thanks

 

preg_match_all('~<a class="classname" target="_blank">([^<]+)</a>~i', $text, $matches);

print_r($matches[1]);

PHP:

 

Thanks, however when i use that i get the following ..

Array ( [0] => Array ( ) [1] => Array ( ) )

 

I tried my code with this as source text, and it worked for me:

$text = '<a class="classname" target="_blank"> This Text</a><span class="classname">

<a class="classname" target="_blank"> This Text</a><span class="classname">


<a class="classname" target="_blank"> This Text</a><span class="classname">';

preg_match_all('~<a class="classname" target="_blank">([^<]+)</a>~i', $text, $matches);

print_r($matches[1]);

PHP:

Output:

Array
(
    [0] =>  This Text
    [1] =>  This Text
    [2] =>  This Text
)

Code (markup):

Does $text contain the source code?

 

I think so ..

If i wanted it to start with: class="classname" and not <a class="classname" would this be correct?

$html = file_get_contents('url here'); 

preg_match_all('~class="classname" target="_blank">([^<]+)</a>~i', $html, $matches);

print_r($matches[1]);

Code (markup):

 

Yeah... does it work now for you?

 

Yes, thanks

 

How can i get it echo just the values so instead of:

Array
(
[0] => This Text
[1] => This Text
[2] => This Text
)


It would output:

This Text
This Text
This Text

 

echo $matches[1][0];
echo $matches[1][1];
echo $matches[1][2];
// and so on.

PHP:

You can also make a shortcut:

$matches = $matches[1];
echo $matches[0];
echo $matches[1];
// ...

PHP:

... and remove the print_r() line.

 

If i don't know the number of all the matches is there a simple way to echo all of them at once?

 

Well you could loop through them:

foreach ($matches[1] AS $match)
{
    echo $match, '<br />';
}

PHP:

Or:

echo implode(', ', $matches[1]);

PHP:

Depends on how you want to display them...