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i am new to web development and my problem is i cannot get the contents after the <div id="article_text">. i used this regex preg_match('/(<div id="article_text">) (.*) (<\/div>)',$html,$body);...what's wrong with this expression? please help me.....tnx a lot..:)
[edited by: jatar_k at 1:55 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2008]
[edited by: eelixduppy at 3:28 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2008]
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If matches is provided, then it is filled with the results of search. $matches[0] will contain the text that matched the full pattern, $matcheswill have the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, and so on.
So -
preg_match('/(<div id="article_text">) (.*) (<\/div>)[b]/[/b]',$html,$body); // were you getting a warning about no final / in your pattern?
echo '<pre>';
print_r($body);
echo '</pre>';
You can also use (?:<div ) if you want to use the brackets to group things, but dont want them to be returned in the $body array.
Also remember with regex that if you have -
<div id='article_text'> // single not double quotes
<div id="article_text" > // space after final "
<div id='article_text' style="color:fff"> // style attribute
NONE of these will match your pattern as they are all different. So you may need to expand the pattern to cover more possibilities. As there may well be a blank array returned if there are no matching patterns. You also need to be careful as the .* will match as much as possible. So you may well get everything in the (.*) from after your div tag until the final </div> in the code. So if you use more than 1 div you may well need to amend the code so that it stops at the first </div>, not the last.
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[1][edited by: PHP_Chimp at 7:51 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2008]
[edited by: eelixduppy at 9:03 am (utc) on Jan. 25, 2008]
ahm, i have now a new prob regarding preg_match and i wanted to display the text between the div tag... im using this regex -->
<---
$orig_link=$rss->items[$id]['feedburner']['origlink'];
$html = getfile($orig_link);
preg_match('/<div class="leftColStoryPhoto"">(?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+¦(?R))*<\/div>/is',$html,$body);
echo $body[0]; // i did not see any display for the value of $body
--->
below is the html code.... i want to get the text between the <div class="leftColStoryPhoto">....
//html code
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<div class="leftColStoryPhoto">
<!-- temp image holder only below -->
<img src="http://www.example.com/i/s4/illo/photos/2008/Jan/Cool%20Apple/Macintosh128k.bmp" border="0" alt="" />
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<p><strong>1: Macintosh 128K</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Photo credit: <a href="http://example.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">Creative Commons licence</a></strong></p>
</p>
</div>
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what should be my regex for that? can you teach me about regex and what are (?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+¦(?R))*<\/div>/is and all of the character used for regex especially in preg_match is all about? actually i just found that code on the net im using it w/o understanding...can u help me please?...thank you
[edited by: eelixduppy at 9:04 am (utc) on Jan. 25, 2008]
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preg_match('/<div class="leftColStoryPhoto"">(?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+¦(?R))*<\/div>/is',$html,$body);
(?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+
¦(?R))*<\/div>/is
Wow that was a long explanation. The regex that you have may well work with the extra " removed.
There is an easier regex, although the one you are using takes care of nested tags, so you can have another div in there and it should find the </div> for the leftColStoryPhoto regardless of any other div tags that may be within that block.
If removing the additional " doesnt work then I, or someone else, can put together a more simple regex that will work for you.
[edited by: eelixduppy at 5:07 am (utc) on Jan. 26, 2008]
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can you help me again about this code below?
<!-- Main Story content START -->
<div class="leftColStory">
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("<div class=\"findBox\" id=\"resultRelatedContainer39169779\">" +
"<span id=\"resultRelated39169779\"><a href=\"javascript: om_ctrack(this, 'ra-open', 'ra - story - open'); article_loadSimDocs(39169779, '', 'http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39169779,00.htm')\">" +
"<img src=\"/i/s4/gl/ico/related-articles.gif\" width=\"13\" height=\"14\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" border=0/>Show related <br />" +
"<span class=\"alignSecondLine\">articles</span></a></span><div id=\"resultRelatedContent39169779\" style=\"display: none; clear: both\"></div></div>");
</script>
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<p>Chandola added the association is less pronounced among people of retirement age who are therefore less likely to be exposed to work stress.</p>
<!-- Main Quote at Top START -->
<div class="leftColStoryQuote">
<div class="leftColStoryQuoteImg"><img src="/i/s4/gl/quote-left-dark.gif" width="21" height="18" border="0" alt="" /></div>
<div class="leftColStoryQuoteText">Workers suffering from stress had higher than normal levels of cortisol - the so-called 'stress' hormone.<img src="/i/s4/gl/quote-right-dark.gif" width="21" height="18" border="0" alt="" /></div>
<br clear="all" />
</div>
<!-- Main Quote at Top END -->
<p>Workers suffering from stress had higher than normal levels of cortisol - the so-called 'stress' hormone. The scientists also found evidence that stress disturbs the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, part of the body's neuroendocrine system. Such disruptions to the nervous system can affect the signals being sent to the heart and could thus lead to cardiac instability, according to Chandola.</p>
<p>But the biological impact of a hair-tearing workplace is not the only negative effect of stress. The study also found stressed workers are more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviour that can lead indirectly to heart disease, such as having a poor diet or taking less exercise. This accounted for around 32 per cent of the effect of work stress on CHD, said Chandola.</p>
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</div>
<!-- Main Story content END -->
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im using this
preg_match('/<div class="leftColStory">(?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+¦(?R))*<\/div>/is',$html,$body);
preg_match('/<div class="leftColStoryQuoteText">(?>(?:[^<]++¦<(?!\/?div\b[^>]*>))+¦(?R))*<\/div>/is',$html,$body1);
$text = $body[0] . "<p" . $body1[0];
echo $text;
but it doesnt work, i want to display the text between <div class="leftColStory"> and <div class="leftColStoryQuoteText">...please help me..i hope somebody could give me the right code for that...thank you very much
[edited by: eelixduppy at 5:05 am (utc) on Jan. 26, 2008]
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