php getneedbetween,PHP Get Text Between Tags + The Tags Themselves

原文：

I want to get all text between [tag] and [/tag] including the tags.

So this sentence.

The cat said [tag]hi to dog[/hi] at the park.

Using this function.

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){

$string = ' ' . $string;

$ini = strpos($string, $start);

if ($ini == 0) return '';

$ini += strlen($start);

$len = strpos($string, $end, $ini) - $ini;

return substr($string, $ini, $len);

}

I can return the text between the tags. But I want the tags also. Basically I want to scan my text for tags to make sure there is both a start and ending tag. Then allow me to edit the content and the tags. So change the [tag] and [/tag] to and around the text if both exist around the text.

I can do they with str_replace, but I don’t know how to combine the search for the open and ending tags, and replacing them.

# Answer 1

Try the following code, basically you need to detect the starting tag and ending tag, and do the substr include the tags as you want.

function get_string_between($string, $start, $end){

$posStart = strpos($string, $start);

if (!($posStart !== false)) return '';

$posEnd = strpos($string, $end);

if (!($posEnd !== false)) return '';

$len = strlen($end);

return substr($string, $posStart, $posEnd - $posStart + $len);

}