Regex HTML

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

 

Using this code:

 

$regex_pattern = "/<a href=\"(.*)\">(.*)<\/a>/";
preg_match_all($regex_pattern,$result,$matches);
$i = 0;
foreach($matches as $match)
{
print $match[0];
}

 

I gather all the "a href" anchor tags on page, but my foreach only outputs the first one and doesn't loop them all? plus the first say 5 anchor tags i don't really need is there a way to  start looping from say the 5th one onwards?

 

thanks guys

 

Graham

[RussellReal]

there is if you use strpos and substr instead of regex

 

You can also use strpos and preg_match_all together with preg_match's offset argument.

[JAY6390]

I would recommend using the DOM over both methods to be honest

http://www.jaygilford.com/php/php-dom-get-all-pagelinks/