PHP strip string

Question

$var = 'Click on this <a href="#">link</a>. (goes to heaven) (and then somewhere else)';

How to get the text, which is placed between first brackets?

Throw its value to $extra

In this example $extra = 'goes to heaven'

Thanks.

Answer 1

preg_match("/\\((.+?)\\)/", $var, $matches);
$extra = $matches[1];

This is strictly true for the example you provided. If you are parsing arbitrary HTML, you'll have to use DOMDocument or similar instead.