Move class attribute value to php variable

Question

We have variable $menu with HTML inside (there is no loop, it comes from a function).

On echo it gives the code like this:

<ul id="menu">
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes one"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes second active"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes three"><a href="#">text</a></li>
</ul>

What I want to do:

1. get value of the class="" of each <li>.

2. if active exists in this value, then go to 3) step.

3. search for one, two, three, four, five inside value. If one of them exists, then throw its name to php variable.

Variable $menu should give:

$name = 'two';

What is the solution?

Answer 1

You should use Regular Expressions.

Or if you can catch each Li item classes in the previous functions might be easier.

Answer 2

Use an XPath query.

see here:http://php.net/manual/en/domxpath.query.php

Answer 3

I think you should wrap the solution into a function.

Regular Expressions fit for the job, but I think you can also use DOM class. Something like:

$menu = '<ul id="menu">
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes one"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes two active"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes three"><a href="#">text</a></li>
</ul>';
// using a constant instead a "magic number" inside below function
define(NUMBER_POSITION, 2);
function getActiveItem($menuStr) {
    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->loadXML($menuStr);
    $listItems = $doc->getElementsByTagName('li');
    foreach($listItems as $listItem) {
        // case count equals 1, expression will be true
        if (substr_count($listItem->getAttribute('class'), 'active')) {
            $classes = explode (' ',$listItem->getAttribute('class'));
            return $classes[NUMBER_POSITION];
        }
    }
}

echo getActiveItem($menu);

That's it.

Answer 4

$html = '<ul id="menu">
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes one"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes two active"><a href="#">text</a></li>
    <li id="some-id" class="many classes three"><a href="#">text</a></li>
</ul>';

$active = 'active';
$valid = array('one','two','three','four','five');

$x = simplexml_load_string($html);

foreach($x->xpath('//ul/li[contains(@class,'.$active.')]') as $li)
{
    if($common = array_intersect($valid, explode(' ',$li->attributes()->class)))
    {
        $menu = array_shift($common);
        break;
    }
}
echo $menu;