EREG

[Anon]

I'm trying to parse out the image part of the following string using ereg, but am not sure how to do it...

<a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=ejNHRFtt1as&offerid=18358.10000070&type=4&subid=0"><IMG alt="Banner 10000070" border=0 src="http://www.cyberrebate.com/bannerad/bannerads/cyberrebate_120x60.gif"></a><IMG border=0 width=1 height=1 src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=ejNHRFtt1as&bids=18358.10000070&type=4&subid=0">

I'm not even sure which part would be just the image cause there appears to be two src's. Thanks.

-Cary

[Anon]

There are two images here, one "real" (the one which appears between the <a> and </a> tags), and the other which appears to be a spacer (notice it's got height and width attributes both set to 1). Assuming you want the full URL to the "real" image, your best bet would be to search for what's in between double quotes and after the sequence

src=

i.e. ereg("src=\"([^\"]*)", $string, $image_url);

which means

match the sequence s^rc=" then (zero or more characters that aren't "), and remember what's in the brackets.

$image_url[1] should hold what you're looking for. Now go back and read the ereg() page in the manual, it might make a little more sense =) [it's hard to figure out at the beginning!]

HTH,

AC