preg_match_all

[Cyto]

Hi,

 

Can someone check wye this gives a empty array:

$url = "http://www.someurl.com";
$file = file_get_contents($url);
$preg = '<a href='."'(.*)'".'><span class=window2 style="text-transform: capitalize">(.*)<\/span><br \/> [(.*)]<\/a>';
preg_match_all('/'.$preg.'/i', $file, $m); //name

print_r($m);

 

Output:

Array ( [0] => Array ( ) [1] => Array ( ) [2] => Array ( ) ) 

 

I am trying to find a name link in a,span from another site, but gives me a empty array. Can someone help?

 

thanks, Cyto

[xyph]

My guess is the RegEx isn't matching.

 

It's impossible to check this because there's no content to test against.

 

You really should parse the content using the DOMDocument class though.

[requinix]

[]s are special characters in regular expressions. They need to be escaped if you want them literally.

[.josh]

Also you're probably going to run into trouble with those greedy quantifiers...

[Cyto]

k thx