Use file_get_contents() to read from a specific div?

Question

I want to get the text from a div in this page:

<html>
<head>Hello world!</head>
<body>
This is a test!<br>Hello man!<br>
    <div class="special">
    I want this text
    </div>
</body>
</html>

I am using this code to get the content without any tags:

echo strip_tags(file_get_contents('http://website.com'));

However, I would like only to get the content from the

<div class="special">

from that page. Is that possible in PHP?

That's possible, use an HTML parser. Now go search please, there are tons of examples on SO. — HamZa, Jun 21 '13 at 09:15
There should be dozens of dupes of this, the above is just the first I found. Use `DOMDocument` and `DOMXPath`. — Jon, Jun 21 '13 at 09:17
How? I see those topics but they are too hard to understand. — John Balls, Jun 21 '13 at 09:21
@JohnBalls: Too hard? Basic examples are like 5 lines long. But you do need to read the manual you know. — Jon, Jun 21 '13 at 09:27
@JohnBalls: Ah I see. Language is always a problem, unfortunately you need to improve your English because you are missing out on a lot of resources otherwise. In this situation improving English == improving programming skills. I 'm not sure what else to suggest. — Jon, Jun 21 '13 at 09:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Use a HTML parser to parse the object you read using file_get_contents(). This question lists a bunch of parsers you could use

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

Community

answered Jun 21 '13 at 09:19

Thom Wiggers

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