Re: Parsing HTML href-Attribute

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Edmund Hertle <edmund.hertle@student.kit.edu> wrote: > Hey, > I want to "parse" a href-attribute in a given String to check if there is a > relative link and then adding an absolute path. > Example: > $string = '<a class="sample" [...additional attributes...] > href="/foo/bar.php" >'; > > I tried using regular expressions but my knowledge of RegEx is very limited. > Things to consider: > - $string could be quite long but my concern are only those href attributes > (so working with explode() would be not very handy) > - Should also work if href= is not using quotes or using single quotes > - link could already be an absolute path, so just searching for href= and > then inserting absolute path could mess up the link > > Any ideas? Or can someone create a RegEx to use? > > Thanks > You could also use DOM for this. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.getelementsbytagname.php