On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 06:43 -0800, Ryan S wrote: > Hey guys, > > As many of you might know, i totally suck at regex..so would really appreciate some help here. > > Basically i have a html page with a lot of textboxes,radios,checkboxes etc > i need your help in the form of a regex so that when i give it the name and value it gives me the entire code of that checkbox. > for example here are 2 checkboxes: > > <input type="checkbox" name="something" value="1" /> > > <input type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" id="something" onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" /> > > > > so if i want the second checkbox code i was thinking of something like this: > > $the_name="something2"; > $the_value="2"; > $fetched=getCheckboxFromHTML($the_name,$the_value); > > and then if successful the variable $fetched would contain > <input type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" id="something" onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" /> > > the idea is that i would use the contents of $fetch to add some code before the end just before the greater than symbol, and do a str_replace(). > > What do you think? Critique of my logic above too is welcome! > > Thanks! > Ryan > > > > Rather than a regex, you're probably better off using something like DomDocument, where you can iterate over all of the input elements in the document, and check the attributes of each one to check if they match your criteria. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
