PHP/regex: How to get the string value of HTML tag?

Question

I need help on regex or preg_match because I am not that experienced yet with regards to those so here is my problem.

I need to get the value "get me" but I think my function has an error. The number of html tags are dynamic. It can contain many nested html tag like a bold tag. Also, the "get me" value is dynamic.

<?php function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {     $pattern = "/<$tagname>(.*?)<\/$tagname>/";     preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);     return $matches[1]; }  $str = '<textformat leading="2"><p align="left"><font size="10">get me</font></p></textformat>'; $txt = getTextBetweenTags($str, "font"); echo $txt; ?> 

Answer 1

<?php function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {     $pattern = "/<$tagname ?.*>(.*)<\/$tagname>/";     preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);     return $matches[1]; }  $str = '<textformat leading="2"><p align="left"><font size="10">get me</font></p></textformat>'; $txt = getTextBetweenTags($str, "font"); echo $txt; ?> 

That should do the trick

Answer 2

Try this

$str = '<option value="123">abc</option>         <option value="123">aabbcc</option>';  preg_match_all("#<option.*?>([^<]+)</option>#", $str, $foo);  print_r($foo[1]);