RE: [PHP] Extracting urls from HTML

preg_match_all("'\s+href\s*=\s*([\"\'])? (?(1) (.*?)\\1 | ([^\s\>]+)) 'isx",$document,$links); This will match the link part of a href, if the href is between " or ' then it will match everything between the quotes. If there are no quotes, then it will match everything up until the next space or > symbol. Some links may be relative though so may need expanding out ... As for the text, something like preg_match_all("|<a\s+href.*?>(.*)?</a>|isx", $document, $links); Hope this helps, Nick http://www.webclient.com.au Get round blocking software. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay Greenspan [mailto:jay@trans-city.com] > Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2000 12:58 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Extracting urls from HTML > > > I think I'd use preg_match_all(). You can see the manual > for how it breaks up the array, which is pretty clost to what you're > looking for. > > Something like this regular expression should work, I think. > You might have to make changes depending on how you > delimit your hrefs. > > preg_match_all('/<a href="([^"]*)".*>(.*)<\/a>/i', $str, > $array); > > > > "Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" wrote in message > <006d01c03edd$ef752420$ce87c5cb@srinivarmd3>... > >Hi, > > > >I need to extract the list of links from a html file. > > > >Ideally I will get them into an associative array where the name part > equals > >the text between <a href...> and </a>, and the value part > contains the > >actual URL. > > > >I've been looking at the available string functions, and I > can't seem to > >find a way. Is there a class or library that does this? > > > >I'm too lazy to figure out how to write a parser for this, > atleast what I'm > >trying to do doesn't warrant that kind of effort. I have a > pretty large > >bookmark file, and I want to store just the links and names > in a text file. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Srini > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >