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Answer 1

+7 A:

This should work (if the HTML is in an external file):

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile('test.html');
$divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');
foreach($divs as $n) {
    echo $n->nodeValue;
}

And in case of a string containing the HTML, you could do:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML('<html><body><div>A</div><div>B</div><div>C</div><div>D</div></body></html>');
$divs = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');
foreach($divs as $n) {
  echo $n->nodeValue . "\n";
}

which would produce:

A
B
C
D

John Conde 2010-01-18 21:16:08

+1 Simply for not mentioning regular expressions. :-)

middaparka 2010-01-18 21:16:52

With this, you just need to careful about divs within your divs. Those will be iterated over as well.

Eric Mickelsen 2010-01-18 21:19:18

It is an external file, I already seperate out the section I want using strpos and substr, can I do this on a HTML fragment?

Chris 2010-01-18 21:21:27

http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php

Eric Mickelsen 2010-01-18 21:25:33

John, I added a bit to your answer. Normally I would add it as a comment to your answer, but since it was more or less the same as what you yourself already answered, I edited it right away. Of course, if you object, feel free to remove it.

Bart Kiers 2010-01-18 21:30:44

Can I make this intolerant to errors? I could paste (externally) the html im trying to parse?

Chris 2010-01-18 21:33:31

@Bart K., additions and improvements are always welcome. :) @Chris, you can add error checking to this by verifying their is actually HTML in the string/file to be checked. You can also add HTML right into the loadHTML method just like Bart's example shows.

John Conde 2010-01-19 02:14:44

Answer 2

A:

If it's XHTML, you can use SimpleXML:

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xhtmlstring);
foreach ($xml->div as $d) {
   {
   //parsing
   }
}

Eric Mickelsen 2010-01-18 21:18:43

I have tried simple xml but it fails to load unfortunately, im not sure why!

Chris 2010-01-18 21:20:52

Try this to output xml errors:libxml_use_internal_errors(true);$sxe = simplexml_load_string("<?xml version='1.0'><broken><xml></broken>");if (!$sxe) { echo "Failed loading XML\n"; foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) { echo "\t", $error->message; }}

Eric Mickelsen 2010-01-18 21:23:28

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