Help with returning values in an webpage

[nightemaster]

I've seen this:

function get_urls($string) {

   $types = array("href");
   while(list(,$type) = each($types)) {
       preg_match_all ("|$type\=\"?'?`?([[:alnum:]:?=&@/._-]+)\"?'?`?|i", $string, &$matches);
       $ret[$type] = $matches[1];
   }
return $ret;
}

but i'm not able to get it to work for any old value="" tag.
I would like it to work for "<input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" value="(something)" />
and getting the value of something
I'm not exactly sure of how to write the pattern for the preg_match.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[bradgrafelman]

What's with this:

while(list(,$type) = each($types)) { 

? Why not just this:

foreach($types as $type) { 

I'm not sure if your code will work or not, as I've never done it like that before. A simple [man]foreach/man looks a lot cleaner though.

As for the preg_match_all, I'm not too savvy with Perl regular syntax, so I can't really help you there 🙁

[nightemaster]

Ok thanks, oh and the reason its like that, because it can parse multiple tags as defined by the array. It repeats for each element in the array.

[bradgrafelman]

So does [man]foreach/man.. "for each". Just a lot cleaner, nicer-looking way of doing it.