How to preg_match this in PHP?

Question

How may I preg_match this in PHP?

$item[0] = <tr><td rowspan=2>07/07/2016 14:55</td><td>AC MENDES - Mendes/RJ</td><td><font color="000000">Postado depois do horário limite da agência</font></td></tr>

I've tried the code below, but it didn't work...

if(preg_match("@<td rowspan=[2]>(.*)</td><td>(.*)</td><td><FONT COLOR=\"[0-9A-F]{6}\">(.*)</font></td>@", $item[0], $d))
{
  echo 'OK';
}

Have you tried not using regexes at all to parse html? I am sure there are html parsers out there that would make that job much easier. — feedc0de, Aug 16 '16 at 14:23
@DanielBrunner, I've never heard of it, I'll take a look, thanks! — William, Aug 16 '16 at 14:24
I'd suggest [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php). — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 16 '16 at 14:25
Also, a kind of a workaround in case you can afford it - https://ideone.com/e6YTRj. :) — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 16 '16 at 14:28
@WiktorStribiżew, That second suggestion works great! Thank you so much! If you'd like you can post it as an answer. — William, Aug 16 '16 at 14:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '16 at 15:02

You may use a DOM with XPath to get all TD texts:

$html = <<<DATA
<tr><td rowspan=2>07/07/2016 14:55</td><td>AC MENDES - Mendes/RJ</td><td><font color="000000">Postado depois do horário limite da agência</font></td></tr>;
DATA;
$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
$dom->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$tds = $xpath->query('//td');
$res = array();
foreach($tds as $td) { 
   array_push($res, $td->nodeValue);
}
print_r($res);

See the PHP demo

The //td will get all td nodes. You might also be using '//text()' XPath to just grab all text nodes.

Else, if you know what you are doing, you may add some temporary strings after each <td> node and then strip tags and explode right with the temporary string:

explode("###", strip_tags(str_replace("<td>", "<td>###", $s)))

See this demo

How to preg_match this in PHP?

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