How do you grab a string from a text blob between delimiters (like an html tag)

[Vigilante]

Topic pretty much says what I'm trying to do.

I want to parse strings for xml like tags so but I'm not sure if php has some function with ($needle1, $needle2, $haystack) which returned the part of $haystack bewteen $needle1 and $needle2.

[ScubaKing22]

I wrote this function who knows when:

function findText($string,$start,$stop)
{
        $stat = strstr($string,$start);
        $stat = substr($stat,strlen($start),strlen($stat)-strlen($start));
        $temp = strstr($stat,$stop);
        $stat = substr($stat,0,strlen($stat)-strlen($temp));
        return $stat;
}

It basically searches "string" and returns everything between "start" to "stop" (Exclusive). Not sure if it's most efficient but it works fine so hope it helps 😉

[Weedpacket]

function delimited($needle1, $needle2, $haystack)
{
    $needle1=preg_quote($needle1,'/');
    $needle2=preg_quote($needle2,'/');
    if(preg_match("/$needle1(.*?)$needle2/s", $haystack, $match))
        return $match[1];
    return '';
}

That can be improved. I'm very tired right now.