preg_match_all

[Anthony Smith]

I am trying to take a web page and get all of the links. It almost
works, but I am missing a few links.
Here is what I am using.
preg_match_all( '/href=[\"\']?([^\"\'>]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i',
$s,$matches,PRE G_SET_ORDER);


It will not pick up links like this:

<a class="highligh t" href="browse.ph p?region=West
+Tennessee&amp; zips=38115&amp; mgrp=13&amp;p=2 ">
<b>Next &gt;</b>
</a>


How do I get it to pickup hrefs like the one above?

[Rik Wasmus]

Re: preg_match_all

On Sat, 31 May 2008 16:49:30 +0200, Anthony Smith <mrsmithq@hotma il.com>
wrote:

I am trying to take a web page and get all of the links. It almost
works, but I am missing a few links.
Here is what I am using.
preg_match_all( '/href=[\"\']?([^\"\'>]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i',
$s,$matches,PRE G_SET_ORDER);
>
>
It will not pick up links like this:
>
<a class="highligh t" href="browse.ph p?region=West
+Tennessee&amp; zips=38115&amp; mgrp=13&amp;p=2 ">
<b>Next &gt;</b>
</a>
>
>
How do I get it to pickup hrefs like the one above?

Add the /s modifier
--
Rik Wasmus
....spamrun finished

[AnrDaemon]

Re: preg_match_all

Greetings, Rik Wasmus.
In reply to Your message dated Saturday, May 31, 2008, 19:08:16,

>I am trying to take a web page and get all of the links. It almost
>works, but I am missing a few links.
>Here is what I am using.
>preg_match_all ('/href=[\"\']?([^\"\'>]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(.*?)<\/a>/i',
> $s,$matches,PRE G_SET_ORDER);
>>
>>
>It will not pick up links like this:
>>
> <a class="highligh t" href="browse.ph p?region=West
>+Tennessee&amp ;zips=38115&amp ;mgrp=13&amp;p= 2">
> <b>Next &gt;</b>
> </a>
>>
>>
>How do I get it to pickup hrefs like the one above?

Add the /s modifier

That would work, after some deeper think about it...
But I wish to offer a bit different approach:

preg_match_all( '#href=(?:([\"\'])([^\"\'>]\S*?)\1[^>]*|([^>\"\']+))>(.*?)</a>#is', $s, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER) ;

It have one downside: your URL will be in (2) or (3) depends on the quotes
around URL.
So you must pull result with construction like

$url_link = empty($matches[N][3]) ? $matches[N][2] : $matches[N][3];
$url_text = $matches[N][4];


--
Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@free mail.ru>

[AnrDaemon]

Re: preg_match_all

Greetings, AnrDaemon.
In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 23:00:34,

preg_match_all( '#href=(?:([\"\'])([^\"\'>]\S*?)\1[^>]*|([^>\"\']+))>(.*?)</a>#is', $s, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER) ;

Regexp should be spelled as
'#href=(?:([\"\'])([^\"\'>]\S*?)\1|([^>\"\'\s]+))[^>]*>(.*?)</a>#is'


--
Sincerely Yours, AnrDaemon <anrdaemon@free mail.ru>