is there a function in PHP that could parse the html data below to show the following.
John Lastname
my address
24
1998-03-20 8:15:31 pm
anything
1.1.1.1
This is the html
<b>Name:</b> John Lastname<br />
<b>Address:</b> [my address] <br />
<b>Age:</b> [24] <br/><br />
<b>Date of Birth:</b> [1998-03-20 8:15:31 pm] <br />
<b>Hobby:</b> [anything]<br /> <b>StudentID:</b>[1.1.1.1] <br /><br />
You should be able to use the DOMDocument extension to parse the HTML.
Having said that, your snippet does not look very semantic at all, so perhaps regex might be a better option.
See this question for a comprehensive example on how to parse it with DOMDocument.