extract links from text file using php

guys how just want to know how do i capture the data on a text file and save it into an array with some filtering

here is an example:
I have text file contains links in this form:

<a href="http://blablabal.com">blah</a>
<a href="http://blablabal1.com">blah1</a>
<a href="http://blablabal2.com">blah2</a>
<a href="http://blablabal3.com">blah3</a>

Code (markup):

I want to read only the links without "<a href=>blah</a>"
and save them inside an array...any ideas?

 

A regex along the lines of...

/<a href="(?<url>.+)?">(?<name>.+)<\/a>/

Think that's about right, definitely the general gist for you.

Dan

 

You might check out this post which I made for a similar request. Hope it's close to what you are looking for!

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8072708#post8072708

 

hi guyz.. both ways give me same results..
I only want links without <a href></a> tags:

<a href="http://blablabal.com">blah</a>

Code (markup):

I want to get rid of <a href=" and ">blah</a> tags and get only the link

"http://blablabal.com"..

Code (markup):

I tried every single possible way and till now I didnt get any good result...

I tried to extract links in this way

if(preg_match_all('/<a\s+.*?href=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(Play)<\/a>/i',$result,$out, PREG_SET_ORDER))

Code (markup):

I get only 3 arrays which are:

1-<a href="http://blablabal.com">blah</a>
2-http://blablabal.com
3-blah

Code (markup):

now Im getting the

http://blablabla.com

Code (markup):

and it looks good for now..which in array no2
the problem it gives me only the result for 1 link
I wanna get results for all links inside that text file...any ideas?

 

<?
$file = file_get_contents('http://localhost/tes/x.html');
preg_match_all('/<a href=\"(.*)\"\s/',$file,$a);

$count = count($a[1]);
echo "<b>Number of Urls</b> = " .$count."<p>";
for ($row = 0; $row < $count ; $row++) {
echo $a[1]["$row"]."<br>";
}

?>

 

okay thanx all for ur help...
I just changed regex pattern and everything works great!

(preg_match_all('/<a\s+.*?href=[\"\']?([^\"\' >]*)[\"\']?[^>]*>(Play)<\/a>/i',$file,$a))