PHP remove information from string

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I have a string that contains an image in html format. Ie..

<img title="imagetitle1" src="www.example.com/image1.gif" height="420" width="340" />

I need to strip everything from it with the exception of the url of the src. Since we don't know what the title will be and thus cannot use str_replace, how do we do this.

gen_Eric · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-20 17:24:37Z

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When parsing HTML data, I like to use DOMDocument instead of a RegEx.

$data = 'Test data src="A" <img title="imagetitle1" src="www.example.com/image1.gif" height="420" width="340" />More data';
$DOM = new DOMDocument;
$DOM->loadHTML($data);
$xPath = new DOMXPath($DOM);
$img = $xPath->query('//img[@title="imagetitle1"]');
echo $img->item(0)->getAttribute('src');

Demo: http://codepad.org/bv6Ivnuy

answered Dec 20, 2011 at 17:24

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0x6A75616E · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-20 17:17:01Z

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With regex, you can do this:

$input = '<img title="imagetitle1" src="www.example.com/image1.gif" height="420" width="340" />';

if (preg_match('/src\\=\\"(.*?)\\"/m', $input, $matches)) {
    echo $matches[1];
} 

//output
www.example.com/image1.gif

answered Dec 20, 2011 at 17:17

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