[RESOLVED] Get url out of tag regex help

emrys404

Hello,

I'm going batty trying to figure this one out as it seems so simple. I'm trying to retrieve the url (everything between href=\" and \">):

$string = "lalala this is great: <a href=\"http://www.google.com\"> google </a> blar blar";
$pattern = "http*\">";
preg_match($pattern,$string,$matches);

But of course that doesnt work, so what should be my pattern?

Thanks in advance,

Emrys

bradgrafelman

Hmm... try this:

$pattern = '/<a.*?href=["\'](.+?)["\'].*?>/i';

EDIT: My regexp is a little rusty... may not work.

emrys404

Thanks, but unfortunatly I couldn't get it to work...
Can you tell me why it wouldnt be as simple as, say:

'(href=\")*(">)/i'

Thanks in advance,

Emrys

emrys404

Okay i ended up getting this to work: use $matches[1] to get just the url:

preg_match('#href="(.*?)">#i',$data,$matches);
$url = $matches[1];