Getting Div's value from a File/String/URL

[realin]

hiya guys,

Before asking question let me tell you i am really bad at regular expressions (REGEX) :(

Well to start with, i want to get the value inside a div with a particular id.
An example can be

[HTML]<div id="static">
This is the content i want to fetch, When i have this whole file in the string format which i got it from file_get_conten ts
</div>
[/HTML]

I hope i made my question clear, please let me know how can i do that ?

Thanks :)
Cheers !!

[Markus]

Would

[php]
preg_match('/<div id=\"".$id."\"> (.*?)</div>/', $string, $matches);
[/php]
Work?

[realin]

Would

[php]
preg_match('/<div id=\"".$id."\"> (.*?)</div>/', $string, $matches);
[/php]
Work?

really thanks a lot for quick response, but can i do it without regex ??
i mean isnt there any way out ??

though i reckon,this is the best/only way :)

cheers !! thanks again

[realin]

well writing this would give me error,

[PHP]preg_match('/<div id=\"normal\">( .*?)</div>/', $getWholePage, $matches);

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'd' in D:\xamp\htdocs\ cut\index.php on line 14
[/PHP]

[Markus]

well writing this would give me error,

[PHP]preg_match('/<div id=\"normal\">( .*?)</div>/', $getWholePage, $matches);

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unknown modifier 'd' in D:\xamp\htdocs\ cut\index.php on line 14
[/PHP]

preg_match('/<div id=\"normal\">( .*?)</div>/', $getWholePage, $matches);

The delimiter is a forward slash, so you need to escape it in the closing div tag.

preg_match('/<div id=\"normal\">( .*?)<\/div>/', $getWholePage, $matches);

[ronverdonk]

Although this is the PHP forum, so my post does not really belong here, I'd like you to consider a JavaScript solution (since you do not want to use a regexp). See this sample[code=html]<div id="static">
This is the content i want to fetch, When i have this whole file in the string format which i got it from file_get_conten ts
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.getEl ementById("stat ic").firstChild .nodeName=="#te xt")
alert ('The div text is: '+document.getE lementById("sta tic").firstChil d.nodeValue);
</script>[/code]Ronald

[realin]

Although this is the PHP forum, so my post does not really belong here, I'd like you to consider a JavaScript solution (since you do not want to use a regexp). See this sample[code=html]<div id="static">
This is the content i want to fetch, When i have this whole file in the string format which i got it from file_get_conten ts
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.getEl ementById("stat ic").firstChild .nodeName=="#te xt")
alert ('The div text is: '+document.getE lementById("sta tic").firstChil d.nodeValue);
</script>[/code]Ronald

but will this script work for a string ??
As i mentioned i am getting a file contents using PHP function..
I guess JS works on browser and when the current page is loaded..
Say if i am on page X i want to get the contents of a div which is stored in varibale $str.
Is that possible using JS ??

[ronverdonk]

I really don't know what you want to achieve or why. But assuming the complete div is in a PHP variable $str and you wanted to get only the 'between' div's text from that php variable using JS. In order to prevent passing the PHP variable to JS, I would show the div (from the variable) within another div with visibility=hidd en and run the JS. Like this[php]<?php
$str='<div id="static">Thi s is the content i want to fetch, When i have this whole file in the string format which i got it from file_get_conten ts</div>';
?>
<div id="myId" style="visibili ty: hidden;">
<?php
echo $str;
?>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (document.getEl ementById("stat ic").firstChild .nodeName=="#te xt")
alert ('The div text is: '+document.getE lementById("sta tic").firstChil d.nodeValue);
</script>[/php]But when the above is not what you are looking for then I don't understand your problem and, in that case, please elaborate a bit more.

Ronald

[realin]

I really don't know what you want to achieve or why. But assuming the complete div is in a PHP variable $str and you wanted to get only the 'between' div's text from that php variable using JS. In order to prevent passing the PHP variable to JS, I would show the div (from the variable) within another div with visibility=hidd en and run the JS. Like this[php]<?php
$str='<div id="static">Thi s is the content i want to fetch, When i have this whole file in the string format which i got it from file_get_conten ts</div>';
?>
But when the above is not what you are looking for then I don't understand your problem and, in that case, please elaborate a bit more.

Ronald

Wow,

thanks, i guess this should work. I will check when i get back home..
you are always a life saver bro ;)
thx
cheers !!
Realin !

[ronverdonk]

So you mean I understood your question.proble m? If that is the case I hope that solution works for you. I'm always in for a coding challenge.

Ronald

[realin]

yup ronanld,

the solution worked for me, i used more smarter jquery :) but the idea was yours to display the string, how can i miss that :p

hehehe.. anyways thanks a lot :)

[ronverdonk]

Don't blame yourself for missing that. It works, that's all you need. See you around.

Ronald