Help parsing a URL

[scs]

Hi all

I'm having some trouble parsing a URL from downloaded site content using fsockopen. I'm making a Voting system for my site and this will be part of it. I am simply just getting a URL.

The URL is very unique yet I can't seem to get it. The end of the URL has a session tag so its always changing. There's also a class in the URL tag that's not on any other link. That should definitely help! I thought. lol

So here is what I got so far

After downloading the site into a variable I'm trying to parse all info I want from it.

$regex = '/href="(.*?)" class="buttongo"/';
preg_match($regex, $output_data, $stuff);
print_r($stuff); //Nothing comes out

The URL looks like this 

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?a=in&u=username&sid=rjhgf2hWm9WDFTkgx9JJd290udtkIgfM" class="buttongo">Enter</a>

I want the URL as a whole so I was just trying to match the unique class.

And I know the data is correct because I got the URL from echo 'ing the data im parsing.

 

Also as you can see in my code I didn't include any of the tag. Like, <a> cause im not sure what I need to escape and if thats part of my problem. I've never been able to find html tags very well. So any tips on that would be great as well!

 

I hope thats enough info to understand what I am doing.

Thanks

Zach

[mbeals]

insert

 

echo  $output_data;

 

before the preg_match and post the contents.

 

I just tested:

$string = '<a href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?a=in&u=username&sid=rjhgf2hWm9WDFTkgx9JJd290udtkIgfM" class="buttongo">Enter</a>';

$regex = '/href="(.*?)" class="buttongo"/';
preg_match($regex, $string, $stuff);
print_r($stuff); //Nothing comes out

 

 

and it spit out:

 

Array ( [0] => href="http://www.mysite.com/index.php?a=in&u=username&sid=rjhgf2hWm9WDFTkgx9JJd290udtkIgfM" class="buttongo" [1] => http://www.mysite.com/index.php?a=in&u=username&sid=rjhgf2hWm9WDFTkgx9JJd290udtkIgfM )

 

so make sure that your $output_data variable is defined and it contains what you think it does just before being parsed by the regex

[scs]

wow 

It worked!

Thanks so much!!

Zach