[RESOLVED] Finding links in string

[andy75180]

Hi, I need a little help with this problem at the moment.

I'm trying to find all URL links in a string, extract them and put each link in an array.

Is there anyway that PHP can do this? Remember some links will start http:// and some https:// and some won't have this at all. Just to make it extra confusing... :bemused:

[bpat1434]

Heh... it's as easy as a simple [man]preg_match_all/man function call.

Pattern:
"~<a href=\"([^{\"])\"[>]>(.*)</a>~"}

It may need some tweaking, but it should work. The basic idea is this:

Find a part of the string that starts with "<a href="". now, take any character before another quote. And any other information about the link (target, style, class, etc.) before the closing ">". Then, take anything before you get to "</a>".

The negates the class. So [>] allows only ">" while, [^>] allows anything but a greater than symbol.