Question

$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";

I need to split the above into an array delimited by the paragraph tags. That is, I need to split the above into an array with two elements:

array ([0] = "this is the first paragraph", [1] = "this is the first paragraph")

Answer 1

Remove the closing </p> tags as we don’t need them and then explode the string into an array on opening </p> tags.

$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
$text = str_replace('</p>', '', $text);
$array = explode('<p>', $text);

To see the code run please see the following codepad entry. As you can see this code will leave you with an empty array entry at index 0. If this is a problem then it can easily be removed by calling array_shift($array) before using the array.