Remove a div with preg_replace

Question

I am trying to remove this div

<div id="myid" class="myclass">other_tags_here</div>

I am using

preg_replace ("/<div id=\"myid\" class=\"myclass\">/", "", $buffer)

but this removes only the first opening tag while I want to remove both opening and closing tags as well as all tags in between.

Thank you

Processing html with regexes will just make [Tony the Pony](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/118068) trot up to your front door and knock out your teeth. — Marc B, Dec 05 '11 at 19:36

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

5

Don't do this. Please use the very nice PHP DOM facilities.

Although a regex can be written to match your particular case, this will be fragile.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Dec 05 '11 at 18:43

FailedDev

Can you please give me a hint where exactly I should look in PHP DOM facilities? Thanx – Yannis Dec 05 '11 at 18:57
@yann http://www.php.net/manual/en/dom.installation.php . It should already be there :) – FailedDev Dec 05 '11 at 19:01

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 05 '11 at 18:45

1

in order to remove everything in between elements you should do somthing like this

    preg_replace ("/<div id=\"myid\" class=\"myclass\">.*?<\/div>/", "", $buffer);

answered Dec 05 '11 at 18:45

Xeus

And what happens when anohter div is inside? Your pc explodes! – FailedDev Dec 05 '11 at 18:50

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