CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user2511671
user2511671

Reputation:

How to get the content in a div using php

In my application i am trying to get the google indexed pages and i came to know that the number is available in following div 

<div id="resultStats"> About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds) </div>

now my question is how to extract the number from above div in a web page

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8402

Answers (3)

Robert
Robert

Reputation: 20286

$str = '<div id="resultStats"> About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds) </div> ';

$matches = array();
preg_match('/<div id="resultStats"> About ([0-9,]+?) results[^<]+<\/div>/', $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

Output:

Array ( 
        [0] => About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds)
        [1] => 1,960,000 
      )

This is simple regex with subpatterns

  • ([0-9,]+?) - means 0-9 numbers and , character at least 1 time and not greedy.
  • [^<]+ - means every character but < more than 1 time

echo $matches[1]; - will print the number you want.

Upvotes: 3

netdigger
netdigger

Reputation: 3789

Never user regexp to parse HTML. (See: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags)

Use a HTML parser, like SimpleDOM (http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/)

You can the use CSS rules to select:

$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');
$divContent =  $html->find('div#resultStats', 0)->plaintext;

$matches = array();
preg_match('/([0-9,]+)/', $divContent, $matches);
echo $matches[1];

Outputs: "1,960,000"

Upvotes: 4

softsdev
softsdev

Reputation: 1509

You can use regex ( preg_match ) for that

$your div_string = '<div id="resultStats"> About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds) </div>';

preg_match('/<div.*>(.*)<\/div>/i', $your div_string , $result);

print_r( $result );

output will be 

Array  (
   [0] => <div id="resultStats"> About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds) </div>
   [1] =>  About 1,960,000 results (0.38 seconds) 
)

in this way you can get content inside div

Upvotes: 1

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