Need help with extracting links using PHP regex (preg_match_all)

The links in the html looks something like this, with many iterations:

<h2 class="lists">Section Name(variable1)</h2>

<ul class="listings">

<li><a href="variable2" title="variable3">variable4</a></li>
<li><a href="variable2" title="variable3">variable4</a></li>
<li><a href="variable2" title="variable3">variable4</a></li>
<li><a href="variable2" title="variable3">variable4</a></li>

</ul>

Code (markup):

I need the links to be seperated by the section name.
So the result array would be something like this, with each item contain the details of the link such as the title, url and anchor text:

Section 1:
link1, link2, link3
Section 2:
link1, link2, link3



I managed to extract the links, but I couldn't find to list them according to their Sections with the following code:

preg_match_all('/href="([^"]+)"[^>]*>([^<]+)/',$pageCode,$resultArray);

Code (markup):

Any help?

 

What output did you get when you extracted the links?

 

try using explode on the section name, then run your regex on each section individually

 

Kinda tricky. This could probably be cleaned up.

CODE:

<?php
$string= '<h2 class="lists">Section Name(variable1)</h2>

<ul class="listings">

<li><a href="variable1" title="variable1">variable1</a></li>
<li><a href="variable2" title="variable2">variable2</a></li>
<li><a href="variable3" title="variable3">variable3</a></li>
<li><a href="variable4" title="variable4">variable4</a></li>

</ul>


<h2 class="lists">Section Name(variable2)</h2>

<ul class="listings">

<li><a href="variable5" title="variable5">variable5</a></li>
<li><a href="variable6" title="variable6">variable6</a></li>
<li><a href="variable7" title="variable7">variable7</a></li>
<li><a href="variable8" title="variable8">variable8</a></li>

</ul>';

preg_match_all("/(<h2 class=\"lists\">.*?)<\/ul>/s", $string, $matches);
foreach ($matches[1] as $match)
{
preg_match_all("/<li><a href=\".*?\" title=\".*?\">(.*)<\/a><\/li>/i", $match, $matches2);
preg_match("/<h2 class=\"lists\">(.*?)<\/h2>/i", $match, $matches3);
echo $matches3[1]."<br>";
$comma = implode(",", $matches2[1]);
echo $comma;
echo "<br><br>";
}

PHP:

RESULT:

Section Name(variable1)
variable1,variable2,variable3,variable4

Section Name(variable2)
variable5,variable6,variable7,variable8

PHP: