Hi,
I am looking for a regex to find the contents of the first <h3> tag. What can I use there?
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A:
Well, a simple solution would be the following:
preg_match( '#<h3[^>]*>(.*?)</h3>#i', $text, $match );
echo $match[1];
For everything more complex, you should consider using a HTML document parser though.
poke
2010-10-04 14:13:14
A:
preg_match("/<h3>(.*)<\/h3>/", $search_in_this_string, $put_matches_in_this_var);
Ashwini Dhekane
2010-10-04 14:13:38
Expression here is incorrect (and using regex in general a bad idea)
Peter Boughton
2010-10-04 14:16:50
A:
First of all: regular expressions aren't a proper tool for parsing HTML code. However in this case, they should be good enough, cause H3 tags cannot be nested.
preg_match_all('/<h3[^>]*>(.*?)<\/h3>/si', $source, $matches);
$matches variable should contains content from H3 tagas.
Crozin
2010-10-04 14:14:35
But they can be commented out, or contains the code `<h3 title="Wibble>Wobble">Wibble > Wobble</h3>`, or similar.
Peter Boughton
2010-10-04 14:16:00
A:
PHP has the ability to parse HTML DOMs natively - you almost certainly want to use that instead of regex.
See this page for details: http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php
And check the related questions down the right hand side for people asking very similar questions.
Peter Boughton
2010-10-04 14:14:37
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A:
Here's an explanation why parsing HTML with regular expressions is evil. Anyway, this is a way to do it...
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($text);
$headings = $doc->getElementsByTagName('h3');
$heading = $headings->item(0);
$heading_value = (isset($heading->nodeValue)) ? $heading->nodeValue : 'Header not found';
Roberto Aloi
2010-10-04 14:17:00
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A:
You should use php's DOM parser instead of regular expressions. You're looking for something like this (untested code warning):
$domd = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$domd->loadHTML($html_content);
libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
$domx = new DOMXPath($domd);
$items = $domx->query("//h3[position() = 1]");
echo $items->item(0)->textContent;
Maerlyn
2010-10-04 14:17:31
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A:
The DOM approach:
<?php
$html = '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Lorem ipsum<h1>
<h2>Dolor sit amet<h2>
<h3>Duis quis velit est<h3>
<p>Cras non tempor est.</p>
<p>Maecenas nec libero leo.</p>
<h3>Nulla eu ligula est</h3>
<p>Suspendisse potenti.</p>
</body>
</html>
';
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$titles = $doc->getElementsByTagName('h3');
if( !is_null($titles->item(0)) ){
echo $titles->item(0)->nodeValue;
}
?>
Álvaro G. Vicario
2010-10-04 14:18:27