Regex with HTML in PHP

[namanhvu]

Hi,

I have the following html code and need to display all contents within the <h4> tags, except the one containing "Footer". I am writing a parser script in php to transform an old to a new html layout.

The old layout is basically like this:

<h4>Backgroun d</h4>
<h4>Advice</h4>
<h4>Footer</h4>
<h4>Support</h4>

And my regex looks like this:

$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>(.*?)(?=< \/h4>)/m";

I need the brackets surrounding .*? because I will use the contents later on in the preg_match_all function.

I have tried using a negative lookahead but none of the following work:
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>(.*?)(?!Foo ter)(?=<\/h5>)/m";
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>((?!Footer) .*?)(?=<\/h5>)/m";
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>((?!Footer) *?)(?=<\/h5>)/m";

Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers.

[ronverdonk]

Hi,

I have the following html code and need to display all contents within the <h4> tags, except the one containing "Footer". I am writing a parser script in php to transform an old to a new html layout.

The old layout is basically like this:

<h4>Backgroun d</h4>
<h4>Advice</h4>
<h4>Footer</h4>
<h4>Support</h4>

And my regex looks like this:

$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>(.*?)(?=< \/h4>)/m";

I need the brackets surrounding .*? because I will use the contents later on in the preg_match_all function.

I have tried using a negative lookahead but none of the following work:
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>(.*?)(?!Foo ter)(?=<\/h5>)/m";
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>((?!Footer) .*?)(?=<\/h5>)/m";
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>((?!Footer) *?)(?=<\/h5>)/m";

Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers.

To start with the 3 instructions beginning at:
[php]
$regex_newsecti ons = "/<h4>(.*?)(?!Foo ter)(?=<\/h5>)/m";
[/php]
all search for </h5> as the closing tag.

Ronald