If you are open to use javascript then a js library like jQuery may help in selecting all elements from a particular class. $(".clasName") Thanks, Vikash Kumar -- http://vika.sh On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Piero Steinger <piero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03.04.2010 16:29, tedd wrote: > > Hi gang: > > > > Here's the problem. > > > > I have 184 HTML pages in a directory and each page contain a question. > > The question is noted in the HTML DOM like so: > > > > <p class="question"> > > Who is Roger Rabbit? > > </p> > > > > My question is -- how can I extract the string "Who is Roger Rabbit?" > > from each page using php? You see, I want to store the questions in a > > database without having to re-type, or cut/paste, each one. > > > > Now, I can extract each question by using javascript -- > > > > document.getElementById("question").innerHTML; > > > > -- and stepping through each page, but I don't want to use javascript > > for this. > > > > I have not found/created a working example of this using PHP. I tried > > using PHP's getElementByID(), but that requires the target file to be > > valid xml and the string to be contained within an ID and not a class. > > These pages do not support either requirement. > > > > Additionally, I realize that I can load the files and parse out what > > is between the <p> tags, but I was hoping for a "GetElementByClass" > > way to do this. > > > > So, is there one? > > > > Thanks, > > > > tedd > > Hi > > You could replace the "class" with "id" and then go on with JavaScript. > > A possible better way are regular expressions... > > > Greetz > Piero > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >