Question

I have this case :

<!-- [STATIC STRING] -->
Some HTML codes here
<!-- [STATIC STRING END] -->

How to get that any codes between STATIC STRING and STATIC STRING END in PHP? Is it possible to get something in between same condition like this :

<!-- [STATIC STRING] -->
Some HTML codes here
<!-- [STATIC STRING] -->

I just need to put some string between something so later on I can manipulate it using PHP. Any idea how to make it efficient?

UPDATE : let’s say that HTML code stored as file.html and on the other side I have this PHP script :

$Filename = 'file.html';
$Handle = fopen($Filename, "r");
$Contents = fread($Handle, filesize($Filename));
fclose($Handle);

from this PHP, I have no clue how to get HTML code between <!-- [STATIC STRING] --> and <!-- [STATIC STRING END] -->. and to make it simpler… just assume that there are no other codes before and after it. what I need is the code between those two and put it as PHP variable.

Answer 1

Use this to extract data from a string

function extractor($str,$from,$to)
{
    $from_pos = strpos($str,$from);
    $from_pos = $from_pos + strlen($from);
    $to_pos   = strpos($str,$to,$from_pos);// to must be after from
    $return   = substr($str,$from_pos,$to_pos-$from_pos);
    unset($str,$from,$to,$from_pos,$to_pos );           
    return $return;
}