Question

Quick and probably incredibly easy question;

$str="<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque turpis risus, rutrum pretium scelerisque nec, sollicitudin ac quam. Nulla eu dolor sapien, id bibendum augue. Aliquam eu nunc mi. Nam consectetur vestibulum leo elementum condimentum. Etiam varius malesuada sapien eget fermentum. Aenean ut massa lacus. Duis non enim enim. </p>
<p>Nam egestas laoreet eros, a mattis dui fringilla ac. Aliquam erat volutpat. Mauris mattis vulputate condimentum. Vivamus libero quam, tincidunt at viverra id, iaculis a tellus. Cras venenatis ante non enim interdum ac adipiscing neque euismod. Pellentesque nec elementum metus.
</p>"

I would like to obtain each text between ‘< p >’ tags. Since I’m a beginner php programmer I wanted to ask if there is any easy way before constructing a straight-forward for loop.

Answer 1

Always use proper HTML/XML parsing, like DomDocument

For example :

$p = array();
$doc = new Domdocument;
$doc->loadHTML($str);
foreach( $doc->getElementsByTagName("p") as $entry)
{
  $p[] = $entry->nodeValue;
}
// $p will be the array contains each p contents