Question

i get the html from another site with file_get_contens, my question is how can i get a specific tag value?

let’s say i have:

<div id="global"><p class="paragraph">1800</p></div>

how can i get paragraph’s value? thanks

Answer 1

If the example is really that trivial you could just use a regular expression. For generic HTML parsing though, PHP has DOM support:

$dom = new domDocument();
$dom->loadHTML("<div id=\"global\"><p class=\"paragraph\">1800</p></div>");
echo $dom->getElementsByTagName('p')->item(0)->nodeValue;