在HTML类标签之间匹配文本

Question

I got the following HTML code:

<ul class='ips'>my_content</ul>

Now, how can I preg_match_all this, to match only the my_content text?

I was trying answers from this question: Preg match text in php between html tags but modifying the regex result in selecting the whole code including HTML tags.

Answer 1

The following regex will work for matching between the tags.

It will match:

<ul class='ips'>... 

With single quotes and double quotes.

$string = "<ul class='ips'>my_content</ul>";
preg_match_all('/[^>]class=["\']ips[\'"]*>(.*?)<\//',
           $string,
           $matches,
           PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($matches);

If you don't care if it is a div, ul or etc, remove the <ul and ul> from the regex pattern.

Response from above:

Array
(
[0] => Array
    (
        [0] => <ul class="ips">my_content</ul>
    )

[1] => Array
    (
        [0] => my_content
    )

)

Answer 2

Here, use this RegEx to allow variations:

/[^>]class\s*=\s*["\'].*ips.*[\'"].*>/

• spaces before or after equals sign
• multiple class names in one class attribute
• multiple attributes after the class attribute