RegEx problem - retrieve content of tag with given class - preg_match(_all)

Question

Hi, I need to retrieve content of <p> tag with given class. Class could be simplecomment or comment ...

So I wrote the following code

preg_match("|(<p class=\"(simple)?comment(.*)?\">)(.*)<\/p>|ism", $fcon, $desc);

Unfortunately, it returns nothing. However if I remove tag-ending part (<\/p>) it works somehow, returing the string which is too long (from tag start to the end of the document) ...

What is wrong with my regular expression?

Answer 1

Try using a dom parser like http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

If I read the example code on simplehtmldom's homepage correctly you could do something like this:

$html->find('div.simplecomment', 0)->innertext = '';