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Asked: 2026-05-16T01:46:59+00:00

I have an html (sample.html) like this: <html> <head> </head> <body> <div id=content> <!–content–>

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I have an html (sample.html) like this:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<!--content-->

<p>some content</p>

<!--content-->
</div>
</body>
</html>

How do i get the content part that is between the 2 html comment '<!--content-->' using php? I want to get that, do some processing and place it back, so i have to get and put! Is it possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    esafwan – you could use a regex expression to extract the content between the div (of a certain id).

    I’ve done this for image tags before, so the same rules apply. i’ll look out the code and update the message in a bit.

    [update] try this:

    <?php
    function get_tag( $attr, $value, $xml ) {

        $attr = preg_quote($attr);
        $value = preg_quote($value);

        $tag_regex = '/<div[^>]*'.$attr.'="'.$value.'">(.*?)<\\/div>/si';

        preg_match($tag_regex,
        $xml,
        $matches);
        return $matches[1];
    }

    $yourentirehtml = file_get_contents("test.html");
    $extract = get_tag('id', 'content', $yourentirehtml);
    echo $extract;
?>

    or more simply:

    preg_match("/<div[^>]*id=\"content\">(.*?)<\\/div>/si", $text, $match);
$content = $match[1];

    jim

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