getting pieces out of a string

[elesueur]

ok, I have a string, of any length, which may have any number of html img tags in it, in the form of <img src="source.extension" alt="alt text">

so it could be

blah blah blah blah <img ...> blah blah blah blah <img ...> blah blah blah blah

What I want to get out of that string, is the sources of al the images, and the alt text, in an array.

I have tried so hard to write the regex function,

preg_match('/<img src=\"(.)\" alt=\"(.)\">/', $block, $matches);

but that only works if theres only one image.

can anyone help?

[HalfaBee]

Try preg_match_all()

HalfaBee

[tekky]

$lines = explode('/>',$block);
for($i=0;$i<count($lines);$i++)
{
     $temp = $lines[$i].'>';
     if (preg_match('/<img src=\"(.*)\" alt=\"(.*)\">/', $temp, $matches))
     {
           print_r($matches);
     }
}

that would work I think....

(or what halfabee said... 😛)

[elesueur]

apologies, it does work but you have to remove the escape character in the explode function there.
[/edit]

thanks for the replies, but that doesnt seem to help...

I'm still getting an array with text and img tags in it.

this is the same problem I had before.

and no, preg_match_all doesnt help, it just puts an array inside an array.

[tekky]

is it the correct data atleast?

if so then you can build this array you are so desperately seeking...

[elesueur]

sorry, i edited the post above.

thanks