Problems lisiting items in an array

[s0crates9]

I am having problems with my script below. What I want to do essentially. is to grab "<a href>" links and tags and then be able to manipulate them by array variables. I am planning to only echo to screen these tags that exist on a site or page. How do I take what I have below and make it able to do this?

$url="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mywebsite.com";[/URL]
function return_a($url)  {
		 $array = file ($url);
		  for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++)
		  {
			if (preg_match("/<a(.*)href(.*)>(.*)<\/a>/i",$array[$i], $tag_contents))  {
                $atag = array();
				$atag = $tag_contents[$i];
				$atag = strip_tags($atag);
				}
		  }
		  return print_r($array);
	}

I appreciate the help!

 

[hos2]

If you can say what the problems are that you are experiencing that would be easier to solve the problem ?

perhaps you're first problem is that you're variable name is array . array is I believe an reserved word ?

 

[kenrbnsn]

No you can have a variable name $array.

You can even make it confusing:

$array = 'Not an array';
$scalar = array('but','this','is');

Ken

 

[s0crates9]

I am getting just one <a href> tag and it does not include the complete tag, just what comes after <a href...

I want the tag and every instance of a "<a href" ...


Thanks!

 

[s0crates9]

Anyone know how to get this routine to return multiple results as opposed to only one?