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Deprecated Deprecated
This method has been deprecated. Use DOMDocument instead (parsing HTML with regex is bad!)
Summery Summery
Get a HTML/XML element from a HTML string
Syntax Syntax
Parameters Parameters
- $realname
-
(Required) Element name (including namespace prefix if applicable)
- $string
-
(Required) HTML document
Return Return
(array)
Source Source
File: wp-includes/SimplePie/Misc.php
{
$return = array();
$name = preg_quote($realname, '/');
if (preg_match_all("/<($name)" . SIMPLEPIE_PCRE_HTML_ATTRIBUTE . "(>(.*)<\/$name>|(\/)?>)/siU", $string, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER | PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE))
{
for ($i = 0, $total_matches = count($matches); $i < $total_matches; $i++)
{
$return[$i]['tag'] = $realname;
$return[$i]['full'] = $matches[$i][0][0];
$return[$i]['offset'] = $matches[$i][0][1];
if (strlen($matches[$i][3][0]) <= 2)
{
$return[$i]['self_closing'] = true;
}
else
{
$return[$i]['self_closing'] = false;
$return[$i]['content'] = $matches[$i][4][0];
}
$return[$i]['attribs'] = array();
if (isset($matches[$i][2][0]) && preg_match_all('/[\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20]+([^\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20\x2F\x3E][^\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20\x2F\x3D\x3E]*)(?:[\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20]*=[\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20]*(?:"([^"]*)"|\'([^\']*)\'|([^\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20\x22\x27\x3E][^\x09\x0A\x0B\x0C\x0D\x20\x3E]*)?))?/', ' ' . $matches[$i][2][0] . ' ', $attribs, PREG_SET_ORDER))
{
for ($j = 0, $total_attribs = count($attribs); $j < $total_attribs; $j++)
{
if (count($attribs[$j]) === 2)
{
$attribs[$j][2] = $attribs[$j][1];
}
$return[$i]['attribs'][strtolower($attribs[$j][1])]['data'] = SimplePie_Misc::entities_decode(end($attribs[$j]));
}
}
}
}
return $return;
}