Grab text between tags in PHP

[phaxmohdem]

Hey all.

I've got a quick php question thats stumped me after a lot of google research. I need to be able to grab the text between two set tags:

Ex.
[tag] URL_Goes_here [/tag]

So I'd need to save "URL_Goes_here" to a variable $var

the tricky part is this will be in the middle of random text, so the script will need to search through the whole variable containing the text

Scan through $full_text
Look for [tag]
Grab everything between [tag] and [/tag]
Save findings to var $var

Any tips on doing this?

Thanks

 

[MSCoder610]

I don't use PHP much, but that seems pretty straightforward... try something like this:

 

[notfred]

Regular Expressions.
preg_match("/[tag](.*?)[\/tag]/", $source_text, $matches);

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[phaxmohdem]

Thank you for the help guys. That is a good start.