Dynamically Exclude Content In PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser

Question

I am making a PHP-based application which will fetch content from a site using the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser.

I want to exclude some text between two HTML tags from the content dynamically.

If the source code of the content is:

Some description or content ETC ABC <span class="s"> May 3  2009 <b> ABC Some Text </b> Some photo or video...

I want to remove all the text wrapped by <span class="s"> to the first <b> HTML tag, so the output will be:

Some description or content ETC ABC <span class="s"><b> ABC Some Text </b> Some photo or video...

This should done using a foreach loop and, the idea is, to get all the filtered text in a variable like $ftext and then have to apply some simple PHP like:

foreach($html->find('how_to_tell_those_filtered_text_here') as $ftext)
$result = str_replace($ftext, '', $result);
$result = str_get_html($result);

So, what should be the solution, any idea?

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2 revs, 2 users 50% · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-01 14:27:38Z

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better if you use readability by Arc90 HTML content extractor

edited Nov 1, 2012 at 14:27

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Max Muller Over a year ago

ah! actually ama beginner so would u refer me any article or if possible any example? Thanks

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