How do I read and pull strings from an html file?

[ReverendZ]

I looked up fread and fgets and it shows me how to read and display all the contents of the file. However, what I really need to do is make a script that reads through a file, looks for certain tags, and pulls out the information following those tags. For example:

<Author>John Doe
<Title>My HTML document
<Time>360 Minutes

So what I'd like to do is make a script that parses the file and finds Author, it then pulls out John Doe and places that value into a variable. Ditto for the rest of the tags.

Any advice?

[bastien]

easier faster better

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[ReverendZ]

Originally posted by bastien
easier faster better

😃

I have a DB. The files aren't for database purposes, they are for display. Several people write the files. So what I'd like to be able to do is to write the file properties (author, title, time, etc..) into the database by gathering all the data from the file with a script. Right now I enter the data manually.

Thanks for the reply, any ideas on my original query?

-Z

[ReverendZ]

Please help me!