Regular Expression

aouriques

Hi friends,

I need help with ereg.
I need get the LINK and LABEL, but if exists HTML TAGS between <a href=http://......> and </a> ignore.

For example:
<a href="http://www.test.com" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span>Test</span><img src="ok.gif">
</a>

Result:
[LINK] = http://www.test.com
[LABEL] = <span>Test</span><img src="ok.gif">

For example:
<a href="http://www.test.com" style="text-decoration: none;">OK</a>

Result:
[LINK] = http://www.test.com
[LABEL] = OK

dcav

I could do this but it will look pretty ugly, I'm sure there's much better way. Here it goes...

$strURL="<a href=\"http://www.test.com\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><span>Test</span><img src=\"ok.gif\"></a>";

$linkPieces = explode ("\"", $strURL);
$link = $linkPieces[1];
$labelPieces = explode ("none;\">", $strURL);
$labelTemp = $labelPieces[1];
$labelPieces = explode ("</a>", $labelTemp);
$label = $labelPieces[0];

echo "String to break: $strURL<br />\n\n";
echo "link: $link<br />\n\n";
echo "label: $label<br />\n\n";

Good luck 🙂

aouriques

For example:
<a href=http://www.test.com>Test</a>
or
<a href=http://www.test.com style=color:#000000;>Test</a>

tsinka

Hi,

try the following code. $matches contains the parts in brackets. $matches[1] and $matches[3] are the ones of interest:

<?PHP
$pattern = "/<a.*?href=\"?(.*?)\"?(\W?| .*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i";
$strLink = <<< EOLINK
<a href="http://www.test.com" style="text-decoration: none;"><span>Test</span><img src="ok.gif"></a>
EOLINK;
$match = preg_match($pattern,$strLink,$matches);
print_r($matches);

$strLink = <<< EOLINK
<a href=http://www.test.com><span>Test</span><img src="ok.gif"></a>
EOLINK;
$match = preg_match($pattern,$strLink,$matches);
print_r($matches);

$strLink = <<< EOLINK
<a href=http://www.test.com style=color:#000000;>Test</a>
EOLINK;
$match = preg_match($pattern,$strLink,$matches);
print_r($matches);
?>

Note: the first link must be on one line.

I tested it on my server and it seemed to work.

Thomas

tsinka

Hi,

you might want to modify the pattern to also match against links that use single quotes instead of double quotes.

Thomas