using regular expression in HTML parsing in php

Question

Well this is the html code:

<?

    $html ='<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mytable">
                                         <tr>
                                            <th class="first-td">Home <span>Live</span></th>
                                            <th>type</th>
                                            <th>Status</th>

                                          </tr>
                                                                              <tr>
                                            <td width="40%" class="first-td">text1</td>
                                            <td>info</td>
                                            <td class="status"><span class="identify">asdf2</span></td>

                                          </tr>
                                                                                <tr>
                                            <td width="40%" class="first-td">text2</td>
                                            <td>info</td>
                                            <td class="status"><span class="identify2">asdf</span></td>
    ';

    $pattern = '/<span class="identify">(.*?)<\/span>/im';
    preg_match_all($pattern, $html, $matches);
    print_r($matches);

    ?>

But what I want is to get back the word text, which is the td in that cell where class is identify. Or maybe if it is easier when class is identify print 1, or if it is identify2 press 0.

So I wna tin pseudocode like this:

If class-identify print the td-class=first-td of that cell

Why not just use a real HTML-parsing tool?

user166390
– user166390

2012-07-05 21:56:26 +00:00
Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 21:56 — user166390
– user166390, Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 21:56
indeed

steveax
– steveax

2012-07-05 22:01:55 +00:00
Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 22:01 — steveax
– steveax, Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 22:01

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-17 19:29:57Z

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I can recommend you to use xpath like in this example.

edited Nov 17, 2023 at 19:29

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