Search and Replace HTML Tags

[k_shehadeh]

In this script I've written, I use my own tags in HTML pages, such as <template></template> to denote sections that should be replaced with something else. Prior to outputting the original HTML, I do the replace by doing a pretty ugly search through the file looking for my special tags.

Since this seems like it might be a pretty common thing to do, I was wondering if anyone knew of a quicker way to parse the page looking for HTML tags. And another problem is that there could be multiple such tag sets in the page.

Thanks for suggestions,
Karim

[tsinka]

Hi,

can you give me an example of an HTML page containing that tags and what you exactly want to do if such tags are found ?

The solution to this depends a little bit on how exactly you want to manipulate the string containing your HTML code.

[k_shehadeh]

Well, they way I currently search for tags is by using the simple string search functions (such as 'strpos'). When one is found, I find the end tag and substr out the contents. I parse the contents to determine what should be extracted from the database to replace it and insert that text. I then output all the new text (with my newly inserted section) to the browser.

Thanks,
Karim