Preg match text in php between html tags

Question

Hello I would like to use preg_match in PHP to parse the \"Desired text\" out of the following from a html document

 Desired text &         


        

Answer 1

if you want to return multiple matches then need to use preg_match_all(). You then loop through the second result group ($match[1]) to get just the content between tags.

$source = "
 Desired text1 
".
"
 Desired text2 
".
"
 Desired text3 
";


    preg_match_all("'
(.*?)
'si", $source, $match);

    foreach($match[1] as $val)
    {
        echo $val."
";


    }

Outputs:

Desired text1
Desired text2
Desired text3