On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 17:03 +0200, dispy wrote:
> Am 03.04.2010 16:29, schrieb tedd:
> > 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
>
> Why don't you just use REGEX? I don't know any possibility to easily
> process contents which are not valid XML/XHTML just because there's no
> library to load such stuff (but put me in right there).
>
> I'm not an expert of REGEX, but I think the following would do it:
> /\<p\s*class\=\"question\"\s*\>(.*)\<\/p\>
>
>
> (my first contribute here, I beg your pardon if something went wrong)
>
> Regards,
>
> Valentin Dreismann
>
The . won't match new line characters, so you'll have to add those in
too.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
