how to echo only selected area of html loaded by file_get_contents()

what i am trying to do is to load a html file via file_get_contents() and echo only a selected area say <div id="something"></div>

is it any way possible?

 

Yes, you need to find where this selected area begins and ends using the strpos() function. then you can extract it using substr() and the 2 positions you retrieved in the last part.

There are also other ways like using regex or XML/HTML/DOM related functions.

 

first of all thanks for your quick reply
i already thought of the idea similar like that but didn't know about the the strpos() function so i was doing something like

<?php
$blogpost = file_get_contents("http://any_page.html");


$area_start= 123545;
$area_stop= 4526356;

for($i=$area_start;$i<=$area_stop;$i++)
{
echo $blogpost[$i];
}
?>

i'll try to resolve it now and then rply back if i need more help thanks again.

 

ok problem solved thanks a lot Sepehr

 

You can also consider using a regex, see php.net/preg_match and php.net/preg_match_all