# PHP: Extraction of tags from html content

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**Created:** [October 31, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-extraction-of-tags-from-html-content/242913 "2007-10-31T17:21:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-extraction-of-tags-from-html-content/242913/1 "2007-10-31T17:21:41Z")

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Hi guys,

I was trying to achieve the following:

1. Retrieve content of a website and assign it to a variable:  
$content = file\_get\_contents(“[http://www.somewebsite.com](http://www.somewebsite.com)”) or die(“Can’t open URL”);

1. Detect for all occurances of textbox stored in $content and retrieves it’s ID or Name.

Any suggestions on how this can be done? Thanks in advance.