php regular expression to get the specific url

Question

I would like to get the urls from a webpage that starts with "../category/" from these tags below:

<a href="../category/product/pc.html" target="_blank">PC</a><br>
<a href="../category/product/carpet.html" target="_blank">Carpet</a><br>

Any suggestion would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

netcoder · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-12 14:45:33Z

5

No regular expressions is required. A simple XPath query with DOM will suffice:

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);

$nodes = $xpath->query('//a[starts-with(@href, "../category/")]');
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
    echo $node->nodeValue.' = '.$node->getAttribute('href').PHP_EOL;
}

Will print:

PC = ../category/product/pc.html
Carpet = ../category/product/carpet.html

answered Apr 12, 2011 at 14:45

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user704278 Over a year ago

Sorry for asking but I haven't used this before and I would like to get the contents from the link. Something like "example.com/p/carpet.html". How will I add this to the code?

netcoder Over a year ago

@user704278: If you want to rewrite the URL, just do: $new_href = 'example.com/p/'.basename($node->getAttribute('href'));

mario · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-12 14:48:04Z

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This regex searches for your ../category/ string:

preg_match_all('#......="(\.\./category/.*?)"#', $test, $matches);

All text literals are used for matching. You can replace the ..... to make it more specific. Only the \. need escaping. The .*? looks for a variable length string. And () captures the matched path name, so it appears in $matches. The manual explains the rest of the syntax. http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php

answered Apr 12, 2011 at 14:48

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