file get contents problem

hey there

i'm trying to get the content of a certain website, and i'd like to get the exact links shown on the site after using file_get_content("$url" )
-->for example , if digitalpoint
is shown , i'd like to get the url--->http://‬forums.digitalpoint.com , not the string "digitalpoint"

i've tried using strip_tags - which gives a weird outpot- "MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; DIRECTION: rtl; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; } TD { FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #003ca5 } " etc...

any suggestions?

itamarp

 

Let me know if this helps.

$url = 'Url from which you want to get the data.';
$handle = fopen($url, "rb");
$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
fclose($handle);

//you will have to perform some replace according to text available in the $contents.

$contents = str_replace('Search','Replace',$contents) ;

$regex_pattern = "/<a href=\"(.*)\">(.*)<\/a>/";
preg_match_all($regex_pattern,$contents,$matches);
print_r($matches);exit;

PHP:

 

Revised code:

<?php
$url = 'Url from which you want to get the data.';
$contents = file_get_contents($url);

$regex_pattern = "@http[s]*:\/\/([^\/]+)[^\s]*@i";

preg_match_all($regex_pattern,$contents,$matches);
echo "<pre>".print_r($matches)."</pre>";
exit;
?>

PHP:

 

danx10 thanks , your code is what i need (i've revised the regex section)
new2seo thanks for trying

i'm still getting a messi outpot, while "echo matches[1];" returns an error ....

 

Let me know if you need any further help.

 

$url = 'http://www.google.com';
preg_match_all('%\bhref="\K[^"]+%', file_get_contents($url), $matches);

PHP:

Your matches will be in the array $matches[0], so to get the first link use
$matches[0][0]
The second use
$matches[0][1]
The third
$matches[0][2]
and so on

 

Wow this is awesome, Can you also write regex for extracting value of url from

[url=http://www.google.com/]Google.com[/url]
[url=http://www.google.com]Google.com[/url]
[url=http://www.gmail.com/]Gmail[/url]
[url=http://www.gmail.com]Gmail[/url]

HTML:

Thanks