Catch text between a tag

Question

I have this string <td id="aui_3_2_0_1196">500</td>, would like to take the value 500 between the tag beginning and end (<td id="aui_3_2_0_1196"> and </td>).

Answer 1

Try:

$text = '<td id="aui_3_2_0_1196">500</td>';
echo strip_tags($text);

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