Text grab

[Double_M]

Hello,

I need some help with grabbing some text of another web page between two text tags i.e.

<small>bla bla</small>

I know what i need is screen scraping, i have succesfully used curl to grab the page, but how would i get the string i want from it?

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

[Installer]

Here's a function I wrote a while ago. It might do the job for you:

function get_enclosed_text($str, $open, $close)
{
    $str = str_replace(array(strtoupper($open), strtoupper($close)), 
                       array(strtolower($open), strtolower($close)), $str); 
    $arr = explode(strtolower($open), $str);
    $text = array(); 
    foreach ($arr as $substr) { 
        if (($pos = strpos($substr, strtolower($close))) !== false) { 
            $text[] = substr($substr, 0, $pos); 
        } 
    }
    return $text;
}

Usage:

$input = 'this is some text with <small>tags</small> <small>in it</small>.';
$text_arr = get_enclosed_text($input, '<small>', '</small>');
if (!empty($text_arr)) {
    foreach ($text_arr as $key => $value) {
        echo $key . ' => ' . $value . '<br />';
    }
}

[Double_M]

Thank you very much 🙂

That has worked a treat!