Hi How are you? I have a form that have a text field for a url of an image from Picasa The url of the image is hidden in the string generated by Picasa "Embed image" <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fB_OHdaSC9uFgZM_pFOwVg"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/er.reshef/SHTBw1V2VsI/AAAAAAAACck/W-KnXb7Re5Q/s144/1%20042.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/er.reshef/394633">×‘×ª×™× ×œ×©×™×ž×•×¨ 394633</a></td></tr></table> Code (markup): How do I extract the url in the src="http://*****.jpg" and save only this to the database? I guess I need a text field for the Picasa code and a form hidden field for for the url extracted from the picasa code ??? With Ruby this can be done like this: a='Picasa code' a[%r{src="(.*)" /></a>}, 1] but I prefer to do this with Javascript I use this for a Real Estate web site that you can see here www.5354.co.il (Its in Hebrew) all pics are from Picasa Right now I copy the code from picasa to a text file and copy the image url from there manualy Thank you for your help Erez
<html> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> var geturl = new RegExp(/src="http:\/\/(.*)\/[a-zA-Z%0-9-_\.]+\.(jpg|gif|png)/); var result = geturl.exec('<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/fB_OHdaSC9uFgZM_pFOwVg"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/er.reshef/SHTBw1V2VsI/AAAAAAAACck/W-KnXb7Re5Q/s144/1%20042.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/er.reshef/394633">???? ?????? 394633</a></td></tr></table>'); var imageURL = "http://" + result[1] + "." + result[2]; console.log(imageURL); // outputs: http://lh6.ggpht.com/er.reshef/SHTBw1V2VsI/AAAAAAAACck/W-KnXb7Re5Q/s144.jpg </script> </body> </html> HTML: i'd tweak the regexp further but don't have the time. anyway, you get the idea...
Thanks christoff, This is what I did, It is working great, This is a very good resource to: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/formex.html