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Asked: 2026-05-19T15:56:26+00:00

Im making a script to get other pages content, and right now im working

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Im making a script to get other pages content, and right now im working on a function that should get tag content… but im a bit stuck 😀

found a new tag of same kind inside tag...
nothing found...
1111
2222

is printed.

<?php

function d($toprint)
{
    echo $toprint."<br />";
}

function GetTagContents($source, $tag, $pos)
{   
    $startTagPos        = strpos( $source, "<".$tag, $pos );
    $startTagEndPos     = strpos( $source, ">", $startTagPos )+1;

    $endTagPos          = strpos( $source, "</".$tag, $startTagEndPos);

    $lastpos = $startTagPos+1;    
    while( $lastpos != False )
    {
        $newStartTagPos = strpos( $source, "<".$tag, $lastpos );

        if( $newStartTagPos == False )
        {
            d("nothing found...");
            $lastpos = False;        
        }
        else if( $newStartTagPos > $endTagPos )
        {
            d("out of bounds...");
            $lastpos = False;
        }
        else
        {
            d("found a new tag of same kind inside tag...");
            $lastpos =  $newStartTagPos+1;       
            $endTagPos  = strpos( $source, "</".$tag, $newStartTagPos);
        }
    }

    return substr($source, $startTagEndPos, $endTagPos-$startTagEndPos);
}
?>
<html>

    <body>
    <?php

    d(GetTagContents('<div>1111<div>2222</div>3333</div>', "div", 0));

    ?>
    </body>

</html>

someone got any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using PHP DOM:

    $src = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$src->formatOutput = true;
$src->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$src->load('path/to/file.html');

$tagName = 'foo';
$element = $src->getElementsByTagName($tagName)->item(0);
var_dump($element->nodValue)
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