simple_html_don problem

Hi guys

Having a couple of issues with the simple_html_don function....

I'm trying to grab some content from my site to store into a db.

I'm trying to grab something like:

<div id="items">

<a href="item/item1.php">item 1</a><br>
<a href="item/item2.php">item 2</a><br>


Here's my code:

<?php

//echo variable

{ 
	$url = 'items.php';

  	require_once 'simple_html_dom.php';  


		//define url
		$html = file_get_html("$url");
	    //get elements
		$link = $html->getElementsByTagName('div[id=items]');


		//get elements
		foreach($link->find('a') as $element) 


		//split links into title/url
			
		//output
        echo $element->href . '<br><br>';

}  
?>

PHP:

What I'd like to do is split:
<a href="item/item1.php">item 1</a>

into:

item
item1.php

and then enter into the db as:

id
title
url

Any help is appreciated, been trying for days now.

Thanks


Forgot to add:

The way it works at the moment is that it grabs all content between the <a> tags and outputs them as:

item/item1.php
item/item2.php
item/item3.php

If I view the source it doesn't display the code but I've worked out that it's all one array.

I'm no good with arrays or exploding so any help i welcomed

Thanks guys

Scott.