[Tempestshade]

i need to split a URL like
<A href="index.html">Home</a>

I want to get the "Home" Part of the url and exclude the rest anyone know how to do that?

[dennispopel]

Hi,

The easiest solution is to use strip_tags() function - it will return 'Home' if called with that string.

[moronovich]

simple regexp (you can extract it from the command line)

Code:

<M+1|k+3> php -r '$string = "<a href=\"test.html\">TEst</a><a>Test2</A>"; preg_match_all("/<(a)(\s+)?(?(2)[^>]+)>(.*?)<\\/\\1>/si",$string,$matches); print_r($matches);'
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <a href="test.html">TEst</a>
            [1] => <a>Test2</A>
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => a
            [1] => a
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] =>
            [1] =>
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => TEst
            [1] => Test2
        )

)

regards,

[FiRe]

YIKES !

You could also use str_replace:

PHP Code:

$string = '<A href="index.html">Home</a>';

$string = str_replace('<A href="index.html">', "", $string);

$string = str_replace('</a>', "", $string);

print $string; 

[Tempestshade]

hrm... how could i make that possible if the URL just kept changing?

[moronovich]

Originally Posted by FiRe

YIKES !

You could also use str_replace:

PHP Code:

$string = '<A href="index.html">Home</a>';

$string = str_replace('<A href="index.html">', "", $string);

$string = str_replace('</a>', "", $string);

print $string; 

not me, but it's the author who answered why the method is not acceptable

Originally Posted by Tempestshade

hrm... how could i make that possible if the URL just kept changing?

more reasons:
1. it won't work for other combinations of link tag (a:A,a:a,A:A)
2. it won't work for whole the file.

if one doesn't care too much about the speed of parsing, use regex (it's just a line or two, compared to several lines for manual userland string-matching procedure). here i write again the code in highlighted manner:

PHP Code:

$string = "<a href=\"test.html\">TEst</a><a>Test2</A><a href='go.html'>Go.. go.. go..</A> Won't be included in the string matching: </a>incomplete linking"; 

preg_match_all("/<(a)(\s+)?(?(2)[^>]+)>(.*?)<\\/\\1>/si",$string,$matches); print_r($matches);

print_r($matches[3]); 

Output:

Code:

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <a href="test.html">TEst</a>
            [1] => <a>Test2</A>
            [2] => <a href='go.html'>Go.. go.. go..</A>
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => a
            [1] => a
            [2] => a
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] =>
            [1] =>
            [2] =>
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => TEst
            [1] => Test2
            [2] => Go.. go.. go..
        )

)
Array
(
    [0] => TEst
    [1] => Test2
    [2] => Go.. go.. go..
)

[Tempestshade]

Ok lol... i got that to work. But i just want it to display
TEst
not Array blah blah blah.

[moronovich]

omg.. should i go into details?

PHP Code:

for($i=0; $i<count($matches[3]); $i++) {

     print $matches[3][$i].'<br />';

} 

and don't forget to uncomment / delete those print_r functions