file_get_contents and preg_match

Any tip why it displays only 1 link instead everyone ?

$content = file_get_contents("http://www.Scorpiono.com");

preg_match("/<a href=(.*?)>(.*)<\/a>/",$content,$matches);
echo $matches[0];

PHP:

 

use: preg_match_all

 

The regex seems busted, I need to make it stop after </a> - can anyone see any problem?

PS: Thanks nfd2005, worked.

 

Are you trying to get the anchor text and the url or just the URL?

 

I'm trying to get all the complete HTML <a href="etc">etc</a> that has a specific "etc" in the href.

I though I can do this by using 2 arrays, but I'm stuck here.. prolly bad code whatsoever.

Got a solution of yourself ? THanks you, green repped for previous help!

 

Eep, I'm not in my desktop PC (where the local webserver is right now to test the code) but

It would be something like

<?php

$content = file_get_contents("http://manele.radioinferno.org");

preg_match_all("/<a href=.*?>.*<\/a>/",$content,$matches);
preg_match_all("/(<a href=\"(.*)netdrive(.*)<\/a>)/",$matches[0][$i],$ceva);
echo $ceva[0][0];
$size = sizeof($matches[0]);
echo $size;
//for ($i=1;$i<=$size;$i++) {
// preg_match_all("/(<a href=\"(.*)netdrive(.*)<\/a>)/",$matches[0][$i],$ceva);
// echo $ceva[0][$i];
//}
/* 

PHP:

Okay, the issue is that using () which are alternation class is to "encapsulate" *I don't know if this is the right word in terms of programming but you get the idea* the data made by the set of rules you have set inside it

Instead you will get the href="" separated and the >TEXT HERE</a> *TEXT HERE separated* If i'm correct the urls will appear in a new array and the text will appear in another one. and the rest in another array

Cheers, sorry if this sounds confusing, I'll give it a shot when I get back to my pc

 

Yes theoretical that's what i was looking for, but code is messy.

I have to grab all the URLs that contain www.something.com from www.websitetograbfrom.com

 

Fixed, re-coded, works! Thank you

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_BOOLEAN_AND in D:\public_html\manele.me\crawl.php on line 9

if (preg_match("/netdrive.ws|dump.ro/i",$matches[2][$i]) > 0) && (!preg_match("/sex/i",$matches[0][$i])) {




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What am I missing?

 

Remove the parenthesis right in front of the second preg_match().

EDIT:

Also, you don't need to check if the returned value is greater than 0. PHP will treats 0 as false and 1 as true. You also need to escape the dots in the domain names with a backslash. Otherwise they mean "any character".

 

Oh, yeah true nico, ty

 

Tip please?

 

Check the parenthesis.

You have to close every parenthesis you open. Try to figure out which parenthesis belongs to which and close them all.

 

Honestly can't find them and I'm feeling really dumb right now asking you kindly to bold it?

 

Fixed, ( ) at the front and back of course.

Ty again

 

Try

if (preg_match("/netdrive\.ws|dump\.ro/i",$matches[2][$i]) && !preg_match("/sex/i",$matches[0][$i])) { 

PHP:

 

$matches[0][$i] = preg_replace("/\n+/s", "", $matches[0][$i]);

I'm trying to remove all the blank spaces, this regex doesn't seem to work, any tips please?