"<img class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"http://localhost/example-local/sites/example/files/styles/thumbnail/public/news-story/gallery-images/Desert.jpg?itok=bqyr-vpK\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"\" /><blockquote class=\"image-field-caption\">\r\n <p>Desert</p>\n</blockquote>\r\n"
I need to extract only src from this string
I've tried this but its not working for me:
preg_match('/< *img[^>]*src *= *["\']?([^"\']*)/i');
As pekka said in his comment, PHP has built in tools already for pulling out tags and things of that nature. Your string would be a good example for when to use PHP DOM.
That being said, using regex, I suppose you could just match everything between src=\" and the closing \". Pretty simple to do that:
src=\\"(.*?)\\"
Together, you could do something like this:
<?php
// SET OUR DEFAULT STRING
$string = "<img class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"http://localhost/example-local/sites/example/files/styles/thumbnail/public/news-story/gallery-images/Desert.jpg?itok=bqyr-vpK\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" alt=\"\" /><blockquote class=\"image-field-caption\">\r\n <p>Desert</p>\n</blockquote>\r\n";
// USE PREG MATCH TO FIND THE STRING AND SAVE IT IN $matches
preg_match('~src=\\"(.*?)\\"~i', $string, $matches);
// PRINT IT OUT
print $matches[1];
That will give you this:
http://localhost/example-local/sites/example/files/styles/thumbnail/public/news-story/gallery-images/Desert.jpg?itok=bqyr-vpK
Or you could combine the two lines using preg_replace if that tickled your fancy:
print preg_replace('~.*?src=\\"(.*?)\\".*~is', '$1', $string);
This basically just matches everything and overwrites the entire string with whatever it found in the (.*?).
Here is a working demo:
