Topic: [SOLVED] preg_match problem

[ted_chou12]

I have a text:

Code: [Select]

<h3 class="customize">title</h3>
<p class="customize">content</p>
<p class="post-footer align-right customize">
<span class="date">date</span>
</p>
I wish to extract the title, content and date individually, so far, I have got:

preg_match_all("|<h3 class=\"customize\">(.*)?<\/h3>|U", $content, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

Which gets the title, but I cant do the same to get the content, does anyone know how?
Thanks,
Ted.

[effigy]

Code: [Select]

<pre>
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
<h3 class="customize">title</h3>
<p class="customize">content</p>
<p class="post-footer align-right customize">
<span class="date">date</span>
</p>
DATA;

preg_match_all('/\sclass="(?:customize|date)">([^<]+)/', $data, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($result);
?>
</pre>


[ted_chou12]

Hello  , thanks for the solution, the starting code tag works very well, but the content stops at <br />
An example of the content that I have is:

Code: [Select]

<h3 class="customize">title</h3>
<p class="customize">content<br /> blah blah .... <a href=""></a><img src />...</p>
<p class="post-footer align-right customize">
<span class="date">date</span>
</p>
But it can only stop at </p>
Thanks again,
Ted

[ted_chou12]

I came up with some random codes

preg_match_all('/\sclass="(?:customize|date)">(.*)?<\/(p|span)>/', $content, $array1, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

hope it gives some ideas,
 

[effigy]

Code: [Select]

<pre>
<?php
   $data = <<<DATA
<h3 class="customize">title</h3>
<p class="customize">content</p>
<p class="post-footer align-right customize">
<span class="date">date</span>
</p>
DATA;

   preg_match_all('%<(\w+)[^>]+class="(?:customize|date)">(.*?)</\1>%', $data, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
   print_r($result);
?>
</pre>


[ted_chou12]

Hi, I got this error:
Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Unknown modifier '\' in /home/user/public_html/blog_feed.php on line 29
when I was trying to correct it.
Thanks,
Ted

[ted_chou12]

Hello, my bad, there was no error, I think I accidentally deleted something in there, but that expression gives span in the </span> tag, I dont understand  ???

[ted_chou12]

I got it~

preg_match_all("/<(?:p|span|h3)\sclass=\"(?:customize|date)\">(.*?)<\/(?:p|span|h3)>/",  $content, $array1, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

Ted