Extract everything between <object></object>

Question

I am using CURL to download a page. Now I want to extract this from the page:

<object classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" width="640"
        height="303.33333333333"
        codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab"
        id="object701207571">
    <param name="autoPlay" value="false" />
    <param name="custommode" value="Stage6" />
    <param name="src" value="" />
    <param name="movieTitle" value="Titanic" />
    <param name="bannerEnabled" value="false" />
    <param name="previewImage" 
           value="http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/oripmqeqzrccbig.jpg" />
    <embed type="video/divx" src="" width="640" height="303.33333333333"
           autoPlay="false" custommode="Stage6" movieTitle="Titanic"
           bannerEnabled="false"
           previewImage="http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/oripmqeqzrccbig.jpg"
           pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/"
           id="embed701207571">
    </embed>
</object>

Please help!

Answer 1

See Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex? for why this is probably the wrong thing to do.

That said you might be able to get away with something like /(<object>.*?<\/object>)/s. This matches the string "<object>" followed by any number of characters up to the string "</object>". The s on the end tells . to match newlines (it normally doesn't).

Answer 2

This is partially in response to Owens (because I can't put code in a comment very well). That regex might not work for the object tag, basically because the opening <object> tag has attributes in it. Try this one instead:

/(<object[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/object>)/si

It's case insensitive and broken into the three groupings for easy reference. It's not 100% perfect, but should help.

Answer 3

this regex will match all the line breaks between the opening and closing tags and capture the entire thing in one group

/(<object[^>]*?>(?:[\s\S]*?)<\/object>)/gi

Answer 4

Using SimpleXML:

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
$objects = $sxe->xpath('//object[@id="object701207571"]');
$object = $objects[0];

$params = $object->xpath('param');

foreach($params as $param)
{
    $attrs = $param->attributes();
    echo $attrs['name'] . ' = ' . $attrs['value'] . "\n";
}

// Get plain XML:
echo $object->asXML();

Answer 5

$doc = DOMDocument::loadHTML($html);
foreach($node->getElementsByTagName('object') as $object)
{
   echo $doc->saveXML($object);
}

Answer 6

@St. John Johnson Good sir its working ... thanx