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Text Between Strings PHP

Posted by Andy Bailey
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here's a useful function that I found in the comments of a php.net function reference to quickly extract the text between two given strings, useful for parsing XML documents or HTML. I've used it to parse lotto results, XML favorites and grabbing <img> links by fopen'ing a HTML file.
$text is the string you want to parse
$s1 is the start string
$s2 is the end string

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PHP:
  1. function get_between ($text, $s1, $s2) {
  2. $mid_url = "";
  3. $pos_s = strpos($text,$s1);
  4. $pos_e = strpos($text,$s2);
  5. for ( $i=$pos_s+strlen($s1) ; (( $i<($pos_e)) && $i <strlen($text)) ; $i++ ) {
  6. $mid_url .= $text[$i];
  7. }
  8. return $mid_url;
  9. }

for example if this is a string in the variable $line in a file you are parsing
"<img>http://www.imageurl.com/image.gif</img>"
you can extract the url by using the function like this

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PHP:
  1. $imageurl=get_between($line,"<img>","</img>");




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