how can i get specific data between div with file_get_content

Question

suppose i echo out

$url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
echo file_get_content($url);

and http://www.mydomain.com has a div i.e

<title>sitename</title>
</head><body>
Lorem Ipsum.......
<div id="divname">and here is div content</div>
Copyright bla bla bla

no i want to only fetch content between div with id="divname" how can i do that

Answer 1

$url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
$html =  new SimpleXmlElement($url, null, true);

$content = $html->xpath("//div[@id='divname']");

Of course you could still use file_get_contents or curl if you want to introduce error checking on the fetch of the document.

Answer 2

With Simple HTML DOM Parser

$url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
$html = file_get_html($url);
$ret = $html->find('div[id=divname]');