Extracting URL from a link containing a specific string

**milesmajefski** · Aug 18 '11, 06:43 PM

Code:

<html>
<head><title>Find Links with BMW in them</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php

  $my_links = array();
  $example_links =
   '<a href="http://abc.com/xxxx">Dodge</a> 
    <a href="http://abc.com/a123.php">Used BMW card</a> 
    <a href="http://xyz.com/ferrari">Brand new Ferraris</a> 
    <a href="http://xyz.com/vjklj"><img src="pic.jpg" />Luxurious BMWs</a>';
  
  $my_pos = strpos($example_links, '<a');
  
  while ($my_pos !== False)
  {    
	$anchorBeg = strpos($example_links, '<a', $my_pos); 
	$anchorEnd = strpos($example_links, '/a>', $anchorBeg) + 2;
    $cut_length = $anchorEnd - $my_pos + 1;  
    $myStr = substr( $example_links, $anchorBeg, $cut_length );
	if (strpos($myStr, "BMW") !== False)
	
	  $my_links[] = $myStr;
	
	$my_pos = strpos($example_links, '<a', $anchorEnd);
  }//end while
  
  //ouput
  $count = 0;
  foreach( $my_links as $str )
  {
    echo "<br />Link #$count: ";
	echo $str;
	$count++;
  }  
?>


</body>
</html>

**mike809** · Aug 18 '11, 07:17 PM

Thank you very much, I'm interested in parsing out the URLs only, so I'll probably do that the same way you did it with the A tags. That means finding >href="< and >"< and then use substr() function.

Extracting URL from a link containing a specific string

Extracting URL from a link containing a specific string

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