PHP preg_match() function to search HTML element

Question

I have HTML output and want to search a specific element on HTML DOM, let say below:

<html>
    <body>
        <div id="post">
            <div>
                <h3><a>Post Title Here</a></h3>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

with that HTML output, from that i wanted to get the text inside tag using preg_match function. How am i going to format it on preg_match?

Answers are greatly appreciated!

**Do not parse HTML with regexps** - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — ThiefMaster, May 28 '12 at 09:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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You should not :) Parse the HTML with a proper HTML parser: less headache, much better handling. See here:

How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered May 28 '12 at 09:43

Palantir

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '12 at 09:45

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You can use phpQuery like this:

phpQuery::newDocumentHTML($yourHTML);
$resultData = pq('div#post h3 > a');
echo $resultData; // Post Title Here

answered May 28 '12 at 09:45

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PHP preg_match() function to search HTML element

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