Retrieve a href titles containing a specific string in url php

Question

i have the following code. and i want to retrieve only the a href titles , that have /movie/ within url.

 function get_a_contentmovies(){
          $h1count = preg_match_all("/(<a.*>)(\w.*)(<.*>)/ismU",$this->DataFromSite,$patterns);
        return $patterns[2];
    }

Prepare for answers stating regular expressions should not be used for this :) — Anne, Sep 24 '12 at 16:48
@Anne Stackoverflow should have a bot that specifically responds to these questions. — Wayne Whitty, Sep 24 '12 at 16:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '12 at 16:56

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You can use DOMXpath like this:

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
$elements = $xpath->query("//a[contains(@href, '/movie/')]");

foreach($elements as $el) {
    var_dump($el->getAttribute('title'));
}

answered Sep 24 '12 at 16:56

Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski

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You should enable error_reporting(E_ALL); and check the output. It works. – Arkadiusz 'flies' Rzadkowolski Sep 25 '12 at 21:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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Using Regex to parse (x)HTML is a bad idea. You should use a DOM parser such as DomDocument. Have a look at this topic.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Sep 24 '12 at 16:48

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Retrieve a href titles containing a specific string in url php

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