Get string between - Find all occurrences PHP

I love to use explode to get string between two string. this function also works for multiple occurrences.

function GetIn($str,$start,$end){
    $p1 = explode($start,$str);
    for($i=1;$i<count($p1);$i++){
        $p2 = explode($end,$p1[$i]);
        $p[] = $p2[0];
    }
    return $p;
}

You can do this using regex:

function getStringsBetween($string, $start, $end)
{
    $pattern = sprintf(
        '/%s(.*?)%s/',
        preg_quote($start),
        preg_quote($end)
    );
    preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);

    return $matches[1];
}

I needed to find all these occurences between specific first and last tag and change them somehow and get back changed string.

So I added this small code to raina77ow approach after the function.

        $sample = '<start>One<end> aaa <start>TwoTwo<end> Three <start>Four<end> aaaaa <start>Five<end>';
        $sample_temp = getContents($sample, '<start>', '<end>');
        $i = 1;
        foreach($sample_temp as $value) {
            $value2 = $value.'-'.$i; //there you can change the variable
            $sample=str_replace('<start>'.$value.'<end>',$value2,$sample);
            $i = ++$i;
        }
        echo $sample;

Now output sample has deleted tags and all strings between them has added number like this:

One-1 aaa TwoTwo-2 Three Four-3 aaaaa Five-4

But you can do whatever else with them. Maybe could be helpful for someone.

One possible approach:

function getContents($str, $startDelimiter, $endDelimiter) {
  $contents = array();
  $startDelimiterLength = strlen($startDelimiter);
  $endDelimiterLength = strlen($endDelimiter);
  $startFrom = $contentStart = $contentEnd = 0;
  while (false !== ($contentStart = strpos($str, $startDelimiter, $startFrom))) {
    $contentStart += $startDelimiterLength;
    $contentEnd = strpos($str, $endDelimiter, $contentStart);
    if (false === $contentEnd) {
      break;
    }
    $contents[] = substr($str, $contentStart, $contentEnd - $contentStart);
    $startFrom = $contentEnd + $endDelimiterLength;
  }

  return $contents;
}

Usage:

$sample = '<start>One<end>aaa<start>TwoTwo<end>Three<start>Four<end><start>Five<end>';
print_r( getContents($sample, '<start>', '<end>') );
/*
Array
(
    [0] => One
    [1] => TwoTwo
    [2] => Four
    [3] => Five
)
*/ 

Demo.