Regular Expression to match this html

[kevinkhan]

Hi guys.

 

Im looking for a regular expression to match html in this format

 

<a class="fn repname_busName repkey_IE_600885_5" href="/Florists/Aisling_Flowers_Cork/IE_600885_5">Aisling Flowers Cork</a>

$strListMatches = '!<a class="fn repname_busName repkey_IE_[0-9]*_[0-9]*" href="(.*)">(.*)</a>!isU';

but it doesnt  seem to work.

 

Can anyone help me out?

[cags]

That pattern matches that example. If it's not matching part of a site you're grabbing, the site doesn't have exactly the same pattern. More details required I think.

[kevinkhan]

Yes you were right sorry.. my fault..

 

What about this html code

 

<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="+353 (021)4501172" fileas="Abbey Business & Communications" -->(021)4501172<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>

 

I want to extract the number (021)4501172

 

This is the regular expression i have at the moment

 

$strContactMatches = '!<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="(.*)" fileas="(.*)" -->(.*)<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>!isU';

 

but when i run the script i get an error

 

Warning: preg_match_all() [function.preg-match-all]: Unknown modifier '-' in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\goldenPagesCrawler\original.php on line 10

 

What could the problem be?

[cags]

You are using the exclamation mark (!) as a delimiter you are also using it as part of your pattern, you will need to change the delimiter or escape the exclamation marks (!) with a backslash.

[kevinkhan]

i changed it to..

 

strContactMatches2 = '~<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="(.*)" fileas="(.*)" -->(.*)<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>~isU';

 

but its not getting any matches for this html code

 

<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="+353 (021)4501172" fileas="Abbey Business & Communications" -->(021)4501172<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>

 

Is there something wrong with the regular expression now?

[cags]

Seems to match fine for me.

[kevinkhan]

i set up this script to extract the number on this page but im getting no mates?

 

are you sure the regular expression is ok??

 

function getMatches($strMatch,$strContent) {
	if(preg_match_all($strMatch,$strContent,$objMatches)){
		return $objMatches;
	}
	return "";
}

  $strListingUrl ="http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,275243.0.html";
   $strContent = file_get_contents($strListingUrl);
    
    
    $strMatch = '~<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="(.*)" fileas="(.*)" -->(.*)<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>~isU';
    


      getMatches($strMatch,$strContent);
      
      
      if ($objMatches !=0)
      {
      
      echo '<pre>';print_r ($objMatches);echo '</pre>';	
      }
      
      else 
      {
      echo "no matches";
      }
    

 

 

 

[cags]

That likely has nothing todo with your regular expression.

 

if ($objMatches !=0)

 

You don't assign objMatches a value at any point (at least at any point where the variable is in scope). I'm assuming you wish to use the value returned by the function, if thats the case your code should be...

 

$objMatches = getMatches($strMatch,$strContent);
      
if ($objMatches != 0) {   
   echo '<pre>';
   print_r ($objMatches);
   echo '</pre>';
} else {
   echo "no matches";
}

Also since you are comparing against 0 you should really return 0 if there is no matches, not a blank string.

[kevinkhan]

i changed the code to this

 

	function getMatches($strMatch,$strContent) {
	if(preg_match_all($strMatch,$strContent,$objMatches)){
		return $objMatches;
	}
	return "";
}

  $strListingUrl ="http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,275243.0.html";
   $strContent = file_get_contents($strListingUrl);
    
    
    $strMatch = '~<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="(.*)" fileas="(.*)" -->(.*)<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>~isU';
    


$objMatches = getMatches($strMatch,$strContent);
      
if ($objMatches != 0) {   
   echo '<pre>';
   print_r ($objMatches);
   echo '</pre>';
} else {
   echo "no matches";
}

 

But i still get no matches

[cags]

Ok, I just realised the URL you are passing in is the URL of this thread. Why? This page will not contain HTML that will match your pattern.

[kevinkhan]

Sorry i taught it my match this line that im writing next

 

 

<li class="tel"><strong>Tel: </strong><span><!-- sphoneid telnr="+353 (021)4501172" fileas="Abbey Business & Communications" -->(021)4501172<!-- sphoneid --></span></li>

 

I taught it might pick out that line on this page and match it with the regular expression but obviously that html above is transformed to something else when i click post...

 

Didnt think of that...

 

 

 

[cags]

As you can tell, the code is syntax highlighted, this means there are all sorts of span tags to highlight it.