detect first html tag

[pedroz]

need to find the position of the first html tag without </ after the word togowentgone

$a = '<p>hi</p><p>togowentgone</p> <br />'
here it would be <br />
// position=30

$b = '<br /><strong><p>togowentgone</p></strong> <hr />'
here it would be <hr />
// position=44

could you please give me a clue?

[dalecosp]

Will there always be a tag immediately following 'togowentgone'?

$position=strpos($b,'togowentgone')+14;

[dalecosp]

Ah, I misunderstood. Lol, a tag that's not a closing tag. Lemme get back to ya 😃

[johanafm]

$a = '<p>hi</p><p>togowentgone</p> <br />';
$b = '<br /><strong><p>togowentgone</p></strong> <hr />' ;
$indexFromText = 'togowentgone'; 
$p = '#<[^/]#';


$start = strpos($a, $indexFromText) + strlen('togowentgone');
if (preg_match($p, $a, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $start))
{
	echo '<br/>First element after "togowentgone" is at offset: ' . $match[0][1] . '<br/>';
}

[anoopmail]

use regular expressions