How to detect the number of <p> elements stored in my db?

Question

Let's say that I have this text my db.

<P>word1</P>
<P>word2</P>
<P>word3</P>
<P>word4</P>

How I can detect the number of <p> elements after I get my text from my db?

Thanks

Answer 1

Use the Simple HTML DOM parser for PHP to parse the contents of the text, select all 'p' elements, then count the size of the resulting array.