how can i extract href from tag using php

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Grabbing the href attribute of an A element

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$link="<a href='test.php'>test</a>";

How can i separate href and anchor text using php.

"Separate" how? What do you want to do with the parts? – Lightness Races in Orbit Sep 16 '11 at 11:46 — Lightness Races in Orbit, Sep 16 '11 at 11:46

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '11 at 11:43

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$link = "<a href='test.php'>test</a>";
preg_match('~<a .*?href=[\'"]+(.*?)[\'"]+.*?>(.*?)</a>~ims', $link, $result);
//result[1] == test.php
//result[2] == test

or better one, if you want "test"

$link = "<a href='test.php'>test</a>";
$result = strip_tags($link);

eventually, you can look at DOMDocument

answered Sep 16 '11 at 11:43

genesis

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i have already tried it but it just gives me the anchor ttext..how will i get href – Shazia Sep 16 '11 at 11:44
A lot of people whine about using regex for HTML and, in general, they're right to do so. However, if you _know_ that `$link` is _always_ going to be formatted the same way, then I don't see a problem personally. Just my 2¢. :) – Herbert Sep 16 '11 at 11:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '11 at 11:46

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<?php
$link="<a href='test.php'>test</a>";
libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$dom = new domdocument;
$dom->loadHTML($link);
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName("a") as $a) {
    echo $a->textContent, "\n";
    echo $a->getAttribute("href"), "\n";
}

answered Sep 16 '11 at 11:46

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

You're not specifically concrete about the string you'd like to parse, but a very easy way to do this with PHP is to parse it as a formatted string in your case (Demo):

$link = "<a href='test.php'>test</a>";

$result = sscanf($link, "<a href='%[^']'>%[^<]</a>", $href, $text);

var_dump($result, $href, $text);

However this is not very stable if the format of the link changes, so you should better look for DomDocument which has been already answered.

how can i extract href from tag using php

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