PHP String Manipulation: Extract hrefs

Question

I have a string of HTML that I would like to check to see if there are any links inside of it and, if so, extract them and put them in an array. I can do this in jQuery with

Answer 1

You can use PHPs DOMDocument library to parse XML and/or HTML. Something like the following should do the trick, to get the href attribute from a string of HTML.

$html = '
Doctors
C - G
G - K
K - M';

$hrefs = array();

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

$tags = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
       $hrefs[] =  $tag->getAttribute('href');
}