I am having a ton of trouble running through finding a string between two strings.
This is the code i currently have
<?
$html = file_get_contents('mywebsite');
$tags = explode('<',$html);
foreach ($tags as $tag)
{
// skip scripts
if (strpos($tag,'script') !== FALSE) continue;
// get text
$text = strip_tags('<'.$tag);
// only if text present remember
if (trim($text) != '') $texts[] = $text;
//print_r($text);
echo($text);
}
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
$string = " ".$string;
$ini = strpos($string,$start);
if ($ini == 0) return "";
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string,$end,$ini) - $ini;
return substr($string,$ini,$len);
}
$fullstring = $text;
$parsed = get_string_between($fullstring, "tag1", "tag2");
print_r($parsed);
echo ($parsed);
?>
I think the problem happens on this line:
$fullstring = $text;
I am not entirely sure if $text has the stripped down HTML from the above function. When i run this code i get the stripped out webpage like i expect but i got nothing between the tags i am setting.
Does anyone know why this might be happening or what i am missing?
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I think its because you are declaring text as a local variable inside for loop. so , after when you are assigning $text to fullstring It's actually null. I don't understand what you are trying to do , but do this and see if it works
$fullstring = ""
foreach ($tags as $tag){
#your code as usual
echo($text);
$fullstring = $fullstring.$text;
}
and delete the $fullstring = $text
line.
you can use this:
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
$string = ' ' . $string;
$ini = strpos($string, $start);
if ($ini == 0) return '';
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini;
return substr($string, $ini, $len);
}
$fullstring = 'this is my [tag]dog[/tag]';
$parsed = get_string_between($fullstring, '[tag]', '[/tag]');
echo $parsed; // (result = dog)