On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 20:51 +0530, vikash.iitb@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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I think Tedds main reason not to use Javascript is that he needs it to
be done on the server rather than the client machine.
ps. please use bottom posting on the list.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
