regular expression /\
(.*?)\<\/div\>/

Question

regular expression

/\<div id=\"current_city\" class=\"current_city\"\>(.*?)\<\/div\>/

Someone can fixe this mess ?

$cookie_file_path = "fb.txt";

$fbplink1="https://www.facebook.com/profile/about";

$fbplinkfinal = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $fbplink1);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fbplinkfinal);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $fbplinkfinal);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch); $Getcurrentcity=preg_match_all("\<div id='current_city' class\=(.*?)\>(.*?)\<\/div\>",$result,$currentcity);

<textarea value="<?echo $currentcity[0][0];?>" ></textarea>

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**Don't use regular expressions to parse HTML. Use a proper HTML parsing module.** You cannot reliably parse HTML with regular expressions, and you will face sorrow and frustration down the road. As soon as the HTML changes from your expectations, your code will be broken. See http://htmlparsing.com/php or [this SO thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php) for examples of how to properly parse HTML with PHP modules that have already been written, tested and debugged. — Andy Lester, Apr 17 '14 at 20:05

Chirag Bhatia - chirag64 · Answer 1 · 2014-04-18T05:33:18.283

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Try this:

<?php
$elem = $dom->getElementById("current_city");
$textData = $elem->textContent;
preg_match("/(?<=Edit).+?(?=,)/", $textData, $city);
echo $city[0];
?>

Here's a demo of the regex that I've used.

edited Apr 18 '14 at 05:33

answered Apr 17 '14 at 20:40

Chirag Bhatia - chirag64

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You need to store the entire HTML Document contents as a DOMDocument type in the variable $dom before executing the above code. – Chirag Bhatia - chirag64 Apr 18 '14 at 05:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '14 at 20:41

$cookie_file_path = "fb.txt";
$fbplink1="https://www.facebook.com/profile/about";
$fbplinkfinal = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $fbplink1);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $fbplinkfinal);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $fbplinkfinal);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);   
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13');
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);


preg_match_all('%<div id="current_city" class="current_city">(.*?)</div>%', $buffer, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$result = $result[1][0];

echo $result;

regular expression /\(.*?)\<\/div\>/

2 Answers2

regular expression /\
(.*?)\<\/div\>/