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Revision: 67303
at September 6, 2014 00:03 by pvq
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// dummy html
$html = '<div id="a1"><div id="a1-1"></div><div id="a1-2"></div></div><div id="a2"></div>';

// the magic
preg_match_all('/<([a-z]+)[^>]*>(?:(?:(?!<\1[^>]*>|<\/\1>).|(?R))*)<\/\1>/si', $html, $matches);

// print result
printf('<pre>%s</pre>', str_replace('<', '&lt;', print_r($matches, true)));
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Match nested html elements using regular expressions.

Replace the first part of the magic "[a-z]+" to search for a specific tag, e.g. "div".

Loop the magic on matched parts to create a recursive match.

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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Search nested html elements

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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regexp

                                

                                                            

                                    

                                        

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PHP