How retrieve all links in HTML page (regular expression)?

Jam2005 · #1 (**permalink**) 04-07-06, 05:28 AM

Hi Guys,

I have a very important problem

Let's say i have HTML page with the following content:

Code:

<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        Visit <a name="GoogleLink" href="http://www.google.com">Google
(top)</a><br /><br /><br />         Visit <a name="GoogleLinkBottom"
href="http://www.google.com">Google (bottom)</a>
   
</body>
</html>

I want to retrieve all links in this string. I use the following pattern matching to retrieve links:

$TMPPattern = "/(href|HREF)=[\"|\'](.*)[\n|\r|\"|\']/iU";
preg_match_all($TMPPattern, $String, $ArrayMatches, PREG_SET_ORDER)

This pattern only retrieves "href" and their values. I want more advanced pattern which will return both "href" and "name" parameters and their values. How can i do this? Help!!!

Thanks!

gorivo · #2 (**permalink**) 04-07-06, 06:55 AM

If I were you, I would use HTML SAX Parser class

You can download it from http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2140.html