Get a specific amount of code from a html file

lukelukeluke · Jul 20, 2004

Hi there!

What i wanted to do with php was to get something from a file. Ive seen that earlyer in another programming alnguage that there is an option with the name "html ignorebefore" and "html ignoreafter".

example of a html document "example.htm":
<html><header></header><body>My Name is Jack</body></html>

What i would like to do now is "taking jack outside of the document" and into a variable into my current php document. Is there a function like these html ignorebefore or ignoreafter?

Thanks alot for help!

Best regards,
Luke

LTeeple · Jul 20, 2004

I believe you may be looking for strip_tags

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

or a variation thereof

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Cheers!
Laura

lukelukeluke · Jul 20, 2004

thanks for youre answer, but:

I look for something to get a specific information out of a htm site.
such as i told where i can enter whats before it and whats after it and it will give me whats between.
But this has to work for a site, for a file, not for a var....

estrellas · Jul 20, 2004

for 1 . .your question doesn't involve php which isn't cool since this is a php forum .. but i think you are going to want to use php to send the variable to different pages ... like

name.html

Code:

<p>Enter Your Name: <form action="stuff.php" method="post" name="stuff">
Enter Your Name: <input name="name" type="text" value="">
<input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Enter Name ">

name.php

Code:

//this line gets the posted value from the last page and puts it into a variable called $name
<?php 
$name=$_POST['name'];
echo "Welcome $name";
?>

this answer your question?

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lukelukeluke · Jul 20, 2004

i think no one understands my question, well, sorry for my bad english.

What i want to have is a script, which can read a text, and after take something outside of the text inside a var, where you can define what comes before that and what comes after.
For example i have the file "test.html" with the following content which is a static document:
"<font>Hello everyone and welcome to our ocntest.</font></td></td><font>This year we have the biggest blah....</font>"

So this is my document. Now i would like to create a php file where i can say:
"php: Please read the document test.html for me and give me in a variable what come after "t>Hello everyone and " and before " to our ocntest.</font></t"

Php should take welcome into the var.
But im not able to edit the html document because its on another server. What i want is to take a specific area of html code out of another static html document.

Anyone knows?

Bastien · Jul 20, 2004

You would need to open a connection to that server using fsockopenn() and retrieve that page. Then once the page is in memory, use strip_tags or regex to remove all but the data you need. Then you can do what you want with it...

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Get a specific amount of code from a html file

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