Question

I dont know what to research or where to start here.

What im trying to do is use PHP to read an HTML Page and pull out the raw text contained inside a div

the div is this

 <div class="thingy">
  test
 </div>

When the php is executed, I want it to echo

Test

Is there an easy snippet for this, or can someone post a small script?

Edit: the html page with the Div is on another webpage.

Answer 1

If you want to parse your html you can use it like

<?php
 $str = '<div class="thingy">test</div>';
 echo strip_tags($str);//OUTPUT : test
?>

As your html is on other webpage, start output buffering include that file in your main php script, do all manipulation on it to get the content.