Re: Re: How do I extract link text from anchor tag as well as the URL from the "href" attribute

WHile waiting for suggestions for extracting the link text from the DOM, I tried a brute force approach using the URLs I had found with getAttribute(), but found myself baffled by my results. I boiled down my issue with this approach to the following snippet. $htmldata =<<<EOB http://www.protools.com/users/user_story.cfm?story_id=1162&amp;lang=1">&quot;Creating Surround Mixes with Tim Weidner</a>&quot; <img height="11" src="new.gif" width="28"> - <i>Magnification</i> engineer talks about mixing the album at the <i>ProTools</i> site, by Jim Batchco http://www.beyondmusic.com/MediaPlayer/Yes/DontGo.html">&quot;Don't Go&quot; Video</a><a href=" http://fi.soneraplaza.net/kaista/musiq/kaistatv/0,8883,201392,00.html"></a> <img height="11" src="new.gif" width="28"> - Presented by Beyond Music (<a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">QuickTime</a> Required) EOB; $url = 'http://www.beyondmusic.com/MediaPlayer/Yes/DontGo.html'; $posn = strpos($url, $htmldata); echo "URL |$url| position is |$posn|"; Running this gives me: URL |http://www.beyondmusic.com/MediaPlayer/Yes/DontGo.html| position is || I've tried lots of functions, and even regular expressions, but I cannot get the code to find the URL in the HTML. While I still hope for a DOM solution to getting this link text, WHY can't the code find the URL in the HTML snippet? On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM, chrysanhy <phplists@hyphusonline.com>wrote: > I pasted the code exactly as you have it, and I got the following: > > *Fatal error*: Call to undefined method DOMElement::getContent() > > I got the same thing with nodeValue(). > > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Ralph Deffke <ralph_deffke@yahoo.de>wrote: > >> did u try it something like this >> >> foreach ($links as $link) { >> $int_url_list[$i]["href"] = $link->getAttribute( 'href' ); >> $int_url_list[$i++]["linkText"] = $link->getContent( ); // >> nodeValue(); >> } >> that should work >> >> send ur code then please >> ralph_deffke@yahoo,de >> >> >> "chrysanhy" <phplists@hyphusonline.com> wrote in message >> >> news:88827b190908160033n226b370bqe2ab70732811b27@mail.gmail.com... >> > I have the following code to extract the URLs from the anchor tags of an >> > HTML page: >> > >> > $html = new DOMDocument(); >> > $htmlpage->loadHtmlFile($location); >> > $xpath = new DOMXPath($htmlpage); >> > $links = $xpath->query( '//a' ); >> > foreach ($links as $link) >> > { $int_url_list[$i++] = $link->getAttribute( 'href' ) . "\n"; } >> > >> > If I have a link <a >> > href="http://X.com">YYYY</a>, how do I extract >> > the >> > corresponding YYYY which is displayed to the user as the text of the >> link >> > (if it's an image tag, I would like a DOMElement for that). >> > Thanks >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> >