How to trim string down to content between <!-- MARKER --> and <!-- / MARKER -->

[housefire]

Let's assume that one had a string variable something like:

$content = "garbage garbage garbage garbage <!-- MARKER --> gold gold gold gold <!-- / MARKER --> garbage garbage garbage garbage";


What would be the best way to be able to create a variable called $gold that contains only the "gold gold gold gold" content as marked by the opening and closing of the <!-- MARKER --> tag?

I'm having issues getting this small filtering task accomplished, any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[felgall]

Use a regular expression

preg_match("/<!-- MARKER -->(.*?)<!--\ / MARKER -->/", $content, $matches);
$gold = $matches[1];

[webdev1958]

This demo function should do what you want.

The output is a string of the content between the markers.