Grabbing the href attribute of an A element

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Trying to find the links on a page.

my regex is:

/<a\s[^>]*href=(\"\'??)([^\"\' >]*?)[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>/

but seems to fail at

<a title="this" href="that">what?</a>

How would I change my regex to deal with href not placed first in the a tag?

dom html php
10 Answers

The following is working for me and returns both href and value of the anchor tag.

preg_match_all("'\<a.*?href=\"(.*?)\".*?\>(.*?)\<\/a\>'si", $html, $match);
if($match) {
    foreach($match[0] as $k => $e) {
        $urls[] = array(
            'anchor'    =>  $e,
            'href'      =>  $match[1][$k],
            'value'     =>  $match[2][$k]
        );
    }
}

The multidimensional array called $urls contains now associative sub-arrays that are easy to use.

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