stripping html file of only links 2

[s0crates9]

I want to essentially strip out everything from an html document except the links. I want to place these links into an array as well.

I have this so far, but it is not placing each link on a seperate line, rather it seems to be in one long line:

$lines = file("index.html");
$html = join("",$lines);

// remove all line breaks
$html = str_replace("\n","",$html);
// and put in a new line break behind every anchor tag
$html = str_replace("</a>","</a>\n",$html);
// split the string into single lines
$lines = split("\n",$html);

Essentially, I figure the page would be loaded into a variable (array), split up of elements - finding all links and then stripping everything in between links. Finally, those links would be separated into different lines and used for output.

Thanks for everyone's help with this!

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[btaber]

by doing:
$html = str_replace("\n","",$html);

you can not do:
$lines = split("\n",$html);

because you removed them all and made $lines one long string.

It would be easier to just pull out all the links and not pull out the html:

$test=file_get_contents("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.msn.com");[/URL]
preg_match_all("/\<a .*?\>.*?\<\/a\>/i", $test, $links);
print_r($links);

 

[s0crates9]

btaber,

That does indeed work, but it spits out images and active links. Is there anyway to get the links to come out like:

<a href="blah.html"><img src="image.gif"></a>

I am trying different ways to get them to be text links only, but not having any luck...


I appreciate your help!


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[vbkris]

try:
preg_match_all("/<a[^>]+>.*?<\/a>/i", $test, $links);


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[s0crates9]

Thanks Everyone! The tag matching regular expressions work well. I finally found out that there is a php function that takes the variables from preg_match_all/preg_match and convert them to strictly HTML TEXT not active HTML.

Thanks for the help! You guys deserve a star.

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