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Asked: 2026-06-13T02:47:08+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How to parse and process HTML with PHP? I am trying to

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How to parse and process HTML with PHP?

I am trying to get the text from the link that follows the text “Dir:”, e.g. the text between the opening and closing of the “a” tag (name of the Director, here Sam Raimi) using php or regex.

For example

<span class="credit">
    Dir: <a href="/name/nm0000600/">Sam Raimi</a>
    With: <a href="/name/nm0001497/">Tobey Maguire</a>, <a href="/name/nm0000379/">Kirsten Dunst</a>, <a href="/name/nm0000353/">Willem Dafoe</a>
</span>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    To get the Director in the Credits, you can use XPath:

    //span[@class="credit"]/text()[contains(., "Dir:")]/following-sibling::a[1]'

    This will get you the first a element following the text node containing the string “Dir:” which is child of a span element having a class attribute value of “credit”

    See Grabbing the href attribute of an A element for a general usage example on how to work with DOM

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