String between php

Question

I've got something like this:

$string = '<some code before><div class="abc">Something written here</div><some other code after>'

What I want is to get what is within the div and output it:

Something written here

How can I do that in php? Thanks in advance!

Just using strip_tags() might leave some of the ``s' content as well... — jkemming, Sep 06 '16 at 16:09
@BlueBockser without a more detailed question, we have no idea whether `` contains content that would be left or not.... as the question stands, it doesn't — Mark Baker, Sep 06 '16 at 16:12
As written, and contain code that has to be deleted and not shown. — InfoArte, Sep 06 '16 at 16:18
As written, `` and `` willl be removed completely by `strip_tags()`.... if `` was actually `
some more text
, then `some more text` would be retained — Mark Baker, Sep 06 '16 at 16:21

Anthony · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-06T17:03:23.123

You would use the DOMDocument class.

// HTML document stored in a string
$html = '<strong><div class="abc">Something written here</div></strong>';

// Load the HTML document
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

// Find div with class 'abc'
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$result = $xpath->query('//div[@class="abc"]');

// Echo the results...
if($result->length > 0) {
    foreach($result as $node) {
        echo $node->nodeValue,"\n";
    }
} else {
    echo "Empty result set\n";
}

Read up on the expression syntax for XPath to customize your DOM searches.

String between php

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