I am using preg_match() to extract this -Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night). Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night)
From this -3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:</b><span class="read-more-small"><span class="read-more-content"> <span class="phrase">Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night). Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night).</span>
My code isn't working and just returns Array ( )
$contents = "3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:<\/b><span class=\"read-more-small\"><span class=\"read-more-content\"> <span class=\"phrase\">Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night).
Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night).</span>";
preg_match('/3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:<\/b><span class="read-more-small"><span class="read-more-content"> <span class=\"phrase\"> (.*?) </s', $contents, $matches);
print_r($matches);
I would say DOMDocument is your friend, but if you are really want to solve this with preg_match you cpuld try this one:
$contents = "3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:<\/b><span class=\"read-more-small\"><span class=\"read-more-content\"> <span class=\"phrase\">Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night).
Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night).</span>";
preg_match( '@<span class="phrase">(.*?)</span>@s', $contents, $matches);
var_export( $matches );
UPDATE:
if you can't go for classes, try this:
preg_match( '@3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:.*?<span class="read-more-content"> <span class="phrase">(.*?)</span>@s', $contents, $matches);
The output will be:
Array
(
[0] => <span class="phrase">Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night).
Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night).</span>
[1] => Mostly dry. Very mild (max 16°C on Fri afternoon, min 12°C on Tue night).
Winds decreasing (fresh winds from the N on Wed morning, calm by Wed night).
)
For instance you want to match "Robert went." in "Robert Went.I never realized when.
" .You should use preg_match()
in the following way:
$text = "<span style='color: #999;'>Robert Went.I never realized when.<br />";
$matches = array();
preg_match("/.*(Robert Went\.).*/", $text, $matches);
It seems that you are just removing all html code (the span
tags) from the string (and the first part '3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:'). Why not detect all <
and >
? Something like:
$text = preg_replace('/<.*?>/', '', $text);
$text = trim(substr($text, strlen('3 Day Weather Forecast Summary:')));
The first line replaces all text within <
and >
(inclusive) by an empty string. The ?
is there to make it not greedy so that only matching <
and >
are removed.
The second line simply removes the leading string. Since it may or may not have leading spaces, I also included the trim
function, but that may not be necessary.
Obviously, these two lines may also be combined into one line.