Trouble with Preg_Match

[KapaGino]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to grab a particular portion of text from a websites source code using preg_match but I'm not getting a result.

<?php

$url = "http://www.estatesgazette.com/propertylink/advert/4th_floor_pear_mill_industrial_estate_stockport_cheshire-stockport_cheshire-3383230.htm";

$html = htmlspecialchars(file_get_contents($url));
preg_match('%image-carousel">.+?jpg%i', $html, $match);
echo $match[0];

?>

I've tried the pattern in RegExr and it did exactly what I wanted.

 

I'm running PHP 5.4.7 btw.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

[trq]

You should probably tell us exactly what it is your trying to match.

[objnoob]

preg_match()'s 3 parameter is passed by reference.  you need to make sure you declare it so the function can refer to it.

$match = array();   # declared, initialized, and referable 

preg_match('%image-carousel">.+?jpg%i', $html, $match);
echo $match[0];

Edit: Nevermind, I guess you don't have to. I forget how easy PHP really is :]

Edited December 30, 2013 by objnoob

[Psycho]

Why are you running htmlspecialchars() on the content before you extract the content you want? According to your regex youa re looking for content that comes after a tag with a parameter ending in 'image-carousel">'. The htmlspecialchars() will convert that closing '>' into '<' and your regex will not match it.