parsing out links in HTML docs

[marco]

Hello to you all,

A question from a PHP newby who is disorientated by the overwhelming
amount of existing example scripts.
-- What is the best/simplest way to parse out the links in a a HTML
document and putting them in an array? --

Some hints, functions or snipplets would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.

Marco

[Janwillem Borleffs]

marco wrote:

Hello to you all,

A question from a PHP newby who is disorientated by the overwhelming
amount of existing example scripts.
-- What is the best/simplest way to parse out the links in a a HTML
document and putting them in an array? --

Some hints, functions or snipplets would be highly appreciated.

Here's a way:

<?

$file = file_get_contents("http://www.php.net/");
preg_match_all("/<a[^>]+href\s*=\s*(\"|')?([^\"'\s>]+)/i", $file, $links);

print "<pre>";
print_r($links[2]);
print "</pre>";

?>
JW

[marco]

O Yeah, the one magic line...

<< preg_match_all("/<a[^>]+href\s*=\s*(\"|')?([^\"'\s>]+)/i", $file, $links); >>

Sweet.

Thanks a lot.

marco