Preg Match Text in PHP Between HTML Tags

Preg match text in php between html tags

preg_match("'<p class=\"review\">(.*?)</p>'si", $source, $match);
if($match) echo "result=".$match[1];

preg_match - text between closing and opening tag

Looks like something wrong with your php installation/configuration.

Your code as it's.

$content = '<h2>Title of post</h2> 1 category <strong>task 1</strong> 1 category <strong>task 2</strong> 1 category <strong>task 3</strong> '; 
preg_match_all('#<\/h2>(.*?)<strong>#',$content,$matches);
print_r($matches);

Output:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => </h2> 1 category <strong>
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] =>  1 category 
        )

)

Live demo

Note: Since there is only one match of your pattern ( between </h2> <strong>) you can access like $maches[1][0] or use preg_match.

Using preg_match to capture text between tags with exception with PHP

This is just a bit complicated, for which we'd just define two expressions and join them using a logical OR |:

<span class="place ville">Ville : <span><.+?>(.+?)<\/

and

<span class="place ville">Ville : <span>([^<]+)?<

RegEx

<span class="place ville">Ville : <span><.+?>(.+?)<\/|<span class="place ville">Ville : <span>([^<]+)?<

Demo

Test

$re = '/<span class="place ville">Ville : <span><.+?>(.+?)<\/|<span class="place ville">Ville : <span>([^<]+)?</m';
$str = '<span class="place ville">Ville : <span>City name</span></span>
    <span class="place ville">Ville : <span><a href="https://example.com">City name</a></span></span>
    <span class="place ville">Ville : <span>Århus</span></span>
    <span class="place ville">Ville : <span><a href="https://example.com">City name</a></span></span>
    ';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

foreach ($matches as $key => $city) {
    if ($city[1] == "") {
        echo $city[2] . "\n";
    } else {
        echo $city[1] . "\n";
    }
}

Output

City name
City name
Århus
City name

preg match text between tags excluding same tag in between

The main problem is that you did not use a word boundary after the opening tag and thus, namespace in the pattern could also match namespaces tag, and many others.

The subsequent issue is that the <${tag}\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/${tag}> pattern would overfire if there is a self-closing namespace tag followed with a "normal" paired open/close namespace tag. So, you need to either use a negative lookbehind (?<!\/) before the > (see demo), or use a (?![^>]*\/>) negative lookahead after \b (see demo).

So, you can use

$tag_ini = "<{$tag}\\b[^>]*(?<!\\/)>"; $tag_end = "<\\/{$tag}>";

preg_match easiest way to match text from inside html tags

I normally suggest if you need to actually express what you're looking for in a HTML document to use an xpath expression for that because it can give you the actual value whereas regex'es are not able to further parse the HTML/XML, and xpath expressions are much more fine-grained. See the output which returns the text-value for example w/o any further tags inside:

array(8) {
  [0]=>
  string(16) "Text text text:3"
  [1]=>
  string(14) "Text text text"
  [2]=>
  string(1) "1"
  [3]=>
  string(1) "0"
  [4]=>
  string(1) "2"
  [5]=>
  string(4) "2.90"
  [6]=>
  string(4) "3.20"
  [7]=>
  string(4) "1.85"
}

Code:

$html = <<<EOD
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="rowData">
  <tr align="center" class="fnt-vrdana-mavi" >
            <td style="font-size:11px" colspan=3><b>Text text text</b>:3</td>
        </tr>

        <tr class="header" align="center">
            <td height="18" colspan="3">Text text text</td>

        </tr>
        <tr align="center" class="fnt-vrdana" bgcolor="#eff3f4" height="18">
            <td width="32%" height="17"><b>1</b></td>
            <td width="34%"><b>0</b></td>
            <td width="34%"><b>2</b></td>
        </tr>
        <tr align="center" class="fnt-vrdana-mavi">

            <td height="17">2.90</td>
            <td>3.20</td>
            <td>1.85</td>
        </tr>
</table>
EOD;

// create DomDocument to operate xpath on
$doc = new DomDocument;
$doc->loadHTML($html);

// create DomXPath
$xpath = new DomXPath($doc);

// perform the XPath query
$nodes = $xpath->query('//td');

// process nodes to return their actual value    
$values = array();
foreach($nodes as $node) {
    $values[] = $node->nodeValue;
}
var_dump($values);

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