Use PHP to find a string inside a string and get some values from it

Question

I have a string like this:

$string = 'this is some random text 
  <div class="myClass" title="myTitle">this is some random text
  again</div> and some more randome text';

Now I would like to remove this content from it:

<div class="myClass" title="myTitle">this is some random text again</div>

But at the same time I would like to store the value of class and the value of title

Any ideas on how to go about this?

See [How to parse and process HTML/XML with PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-to-parse-and-process-html-xml-with-php) — BudwiseЯ, Mar 21 '13 at 14:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 14:22

Here's a sample script for what your example shows specifically:

<?php
  $string = 'this is some random text <div class="myClass" title="myTitle">
             this is some random text again</div> and some more randome text';
  preg_match('/class=\"(\w{1,})\"\stitle=\"(\w{1,})\"/i', $string, $matches);
  echo "Class: {$matches[1]}\n";
  echo "Title: {$matches[2]}\n";
?>

Output:

marks-mac-pro:~ mstanislav$ php regex.php 
Class: myClass
Title: myTitle

You may have to adjust for other uses and/or ensure compatibility with naming conventions of HTML attributes.

Use PHP to find a string inside a string and get some values from it

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