i have html file contains tables and text, i need a function to exclude all the text in the body tag except the table tags and the text inside it .
Hi,
You should look into strip_tags()
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php
strip_tags($html, '<table><tr><td><th><thead><tbody><tfoot>');
where $html is the string containing your table code.
Note: This will also strip out any other html tags you may have in your table.