PHP - How to retrieve the contents of the HTML tag

Question

How to retrieve the contents of the HTML tag.

    $foo = '<p>

aaaaaa                </p>

<p>            
bbbbbb bb 
bbbbbbb  </p>
         <p>            cccccccc 
ccc</p>';

I need to get "aaaaaa"

thank you very much

possible duplicate of [PHP/regex: How to get the string value of HTML tag?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/828870/php-regex-how-to-get-the-string-value-of-html-tag) — 0x9BD0, Apr 02 '14 at 15:35
See this awsner using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser http://stackoverflow.com/a/1364269/3448695 — sergiovilar, Apr 02 '14 at 20:45

Shankar Narayana Damodaran · Answer 1 · 2014-04-02T15:54:38.273

2

Use a DOMParser

echo trim($dom->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0)->nodeValue); //"prints" aaaaaa

edited Apr 02 '14 at 15:54

answered Apr 02 '14 at 15:35

Thank you, I have a problem with white characters :-( Edit my main question. Thank – Z55 Apr 02 '14 at 15:55
I have edited the answer. See the demo. I have used `trim` , so you wont get any whitespace. – Shankar Narayana Damodaran Apr 02 '14 at 15:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '14 at 15:40

0

Use this:

$content = null ;
if ( preg_match("/<p[^>]*>(.*?)<\\/p>/si", $foo, $match) )
    $content = $match[1];

use $match[2] for the second match, etc.

answered Apr 02 '14 at 15:40

Roemer

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