Re: GetElementByClass?

At 3:58 PM +0100 4/3/10, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

I don't think there is a getElementsByClass function. HTML5 is proposing one, but that will most likely be implemented in Javascript before PHP Dom. There is a way to tidy up the HTML to make it XHTML, but I'm not sure what it is. If you know roughly where in the document the HTML snippet is you can use XPath to grab it. Failing that, what about a regex? It shouldn't be too hard to write a regex to match your example above. Thanks, Ash

Ash: I don't have a problem solving the problem the long way, which is to: 1. Load the file; 2. Parse between the markers; 3. Strip tags and replace extra white space. 4. Save to the db. In fact, here's the code I used to solve the problem: //-------- $filesize = filesize($filename); $file = fopen( $filename, "r" ); $text = fread( $file, $filesize ); fclose( $file ); $marker1 = "<p class=\"question\">"; $marker2 = "</p>";

$first = strpos($text, $marker1)+20;           $last = strpos($text, $marker2);               $len = $last - $first;

$text = substr($text, $first , $len); $text = strip_tags($text); $space = array(' ', "\t", "\n", "\r", "\x0B", "\x0C"); $words = array(); $all_words = explode(' ', $text); { $line = str_replace($space, '', $line); if (strlen($line) > 0)

      {
      $words[] = $line;
      }

} $text = implode(' ',$words); $text = htmlspecialchars($text); //--------- I was just exploring PHP's getElement thing and wasn't having much luck with it. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com