Extract string using htmldom php - php

Question

how to extract specific string after specific word using html dom in php. I have
<div class="abc">
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = { word : path } </script>
Now i want to extract path after word

Answer 1

thanks for your response.
I got the solution for what i was looking.
Here is the code in case someone needs it.
Explanation :
'$results' is the curl response.
Enter div class name (which you want to fetch) inside "$xpath->query() function"
You will get source code for entire class inside "$tag->textContent"
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($results);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$tags = $xpath->query('//div[#class="e"]');
foreach ($tags as $tag)
{
echo "<br>----------<br>";
var_dump($tag->textContent);
echo "<br>----------<br>";
}
Now you have your required class' html source inside "$tag->textContent".
Now you can fetch anything from the string between "start" and "end" points using below function.
function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){
$string = ' ' . $string;
$ini = strpos($string, $start);
if ($ini == 0) return '';
$ini += strlen($start);
$len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini;
return substr($string, $ini, $len);
}
In my case i used it like this :
$price = get_string_between($tag->textContent,'swf', '+');
echo $price;
Here "swf" is the starting point of the path and "+" is the end point.
Hope it saves somebody else time :)