html file into string

[hisham]

I have an html file:
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<h1>title<br>
title_one</h1>
<h3>ONE<br>
TOW<br>
THREE<br>
FOUR<br>
FIVE<br>
SIX</h3>
</body>
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I used the following code to get a text like "ONE TOW THREE FOUR FIVE SIX"

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function cleanUpHTML($text) {
$body_tags = array ("\r","\n",<h1>,<h3>,</h1>,</h3>","<br>");
$rmv_tags = array ("","","","","","","\n");
$text = str_replace ($body_tags,$rmv_tags,$text);
return ($text);
$fname = "path_to_my_file";
$whole_file = file_get_contents ($fname);
$text_pos = strpos($whole_file, '</h1>') + 5;
$text_finish = strpos($whole_file, '</body>');
$text = cleanUpHTML(substr($whole_file, $text_pos, ($text_finish - $text_pos)));
echo $text;
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but in this way I can't get the word ONE to insert it in a database.
how can I get every word into a string?
Thanks in advance.

 

[trollacious]

From the PHP 5 help files:

(PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )
strip_tags -- Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string

Description
string strip_tags ( string str [, string allowable_tags])


This function tries to return a string with all HTML and PHP tags stripped from a given str. It uses the same tag stripping state machine as the fgetss() function.

You can use the optional second parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped.

Lee

 

[Olavxxx]

yes, you can strip everything but the <br> and then explode on <br>

Olav Alexander Mjelde

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