On 03.04.2010 17:17, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 17:03 +0200, dispy wrote:
>
>
>> Am 03.04.2010 16:29, schrieb tedd:
>>
>>> Hi gang:
>>>
>>> Here's the problem.
>>>
>>> I have 184 HTML pages in a directory and each page contain a question.
>>> The question is noted in the HTML DOM like so:
>>>
>>> <p class="question">
>>> Who is Roger Rabbit?
>>> </p>
>>>
>>> My question is -- how can I extract the string "Who is Roger Rabbit?"
>>> from each page using php? You see, I want to store the questions in a
>>> database without having to re-type, or cut/paste, each one.
>>>
>>> Now, I can extract each question by using javascript --
>>>
>>> document.getElementById("question").innerHTML;
>>>
>>> -- and stepping through each page, but I don't want to use javascript
>>> for this.
>>>
>>> I have not found/created a working example of this using PHP. I tried
>>> using PHP's getElementByID(), but that requires the target file to be
>>> valid xml and the string to be contained within an ID and not a class.
>>> These pages do not support either requirement.
>>>
>>> Additionally, I realize that I can load the files and parse out what is
>>> between the <p> tags, but I was hoping for a "GetElementByClass" way to
>>> do this.
>>>
>>> So, is there one?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> tedd
>>>
>> Why don't you just use REGEX? I don't know any possibility to easily
>> process contents which are not valid XML/XHTML just because there's no
>> library to load such stuff (but put me in right there).
>>
>> I'm not an expert of REGEX, but I think the following would do it:
>> /\<p\s*class\=\"question\"\s*\>(.*)\<\/p\>
>>
>>
>> (my first contribute here, I beg your pardon if something went wrong)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Valentin Dreismann
>>
>>
>
> The . won't match new line characters, so you'll have to add those in
> too.
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
It matches new lines with the modifier s.
http://ch2.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
Greetz
Piero
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