[RESOLVED] Grabbing Random Text between Tags

[fr8]

$content='sldkfj;alsdkf<KNOWNRANDOMOPEN>TheRandomText</KNOWNRANDOMCLOSE>a;lsdkjf;alskdjf;lasdkf';

$patternopen='<KNOWNRANDOMOPEN>';
$patternclose='</KNOWNRANDOMCLOSE>';

echo $display; //Should only display "TheRandomText"

Im trying to grab info between two known patterns.

Any ideas?

[sneakyimp]

Use a combination of [man]strpos[/man] and [man]substr[/man]. Or perhaps [man]preg_match[/man].

[fr8]

Two explodes got the job done.

Is this efficient?

$explode1=explode('<first_pattern>', $page_text);
$explode2=explode('<sec_pattern>', $explode[1]);

$new_name=$explode2["0"];

[sneakyimp]

I'm not sure. You would need something to compare it to I guess and then run each method 1,000 times in a loop and see which is faster.

[bradgrafelman]

Just to offer a preg_match alternative:

preg_match('@<KNOWNRANDOMOPEN>(.*?)</KNOWNRANDOMOPEN>@si', $page_text, $matches);
$new_name = (isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : '');