How to extract Tag Value from PHP not Tag code?

Question

I need to get the 4th H4 Tag Value HTML Code looks like below :

                  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
                    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 1</h5>
                    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
                  </div>

                  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
                    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 2 </h5>
                    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
                  </div>

                  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
                    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 3</h5>
                    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
                  </div>

                  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
                    <h3 class="mb-3">testing</h5>
                    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">**Needed this Value only**</h4>
                  </div>

I really appreciate is somebody can help.

Below what I am looking for :

Got HTML from CURL request

Than,

    $html = new simple_html_dom();
    $html->load($content);

$html->find('h4') as $h4)

$value = $h4->???????; --> what should be the value ??

Does this answer your question? [How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php) — Patrick Q, Dec 05 '19 at 17:41
Also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18349130/how-to-parse-html-in-php — Patrick Q, Dec 05 '19 at 17:41
Ok, below is the context i am looking for : $html = new simple_html_dom(); $html->load($content); $html->find('h1') as $myLink $h1 = $myLink-> ???????; Please let me know the value — techexpert, Dec 05 '19 at 18:37
Have you reviewed [the documentation](https://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.io/manual_api.htm)? — Patrick Q, Dec 05 '19 at 18:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '19 at 21:04

PHP has a builtin DOM parser, you don't need a third-party library for a simple lookup:

<?php

$input = '<div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 1</h5>
    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
  </div>

  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 2 </h5>
    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
  </div>

  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
    <h3 class="mb-3">testing 3</h5>
    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">Not needed this Value</h4>
  </div>

  <div class="col-md-6 mb-6 mb-md-3">
    <h3 class="mb-3">testing</h5>
    <h4 class="mb-0 abcd defg hikjk lmnop">**Needed this Value only**</h4>
  </div>';

$dom = new DOMDocument();
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom->loadHTML($input);
libxml_use_internal_errors(false);

var_dump($dom->getElementsByTagName('h4')[3]->nodeValue);

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How to extract Tag Value from PHP not Tag code?

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