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

Your question is diffucult to understand but i believe you want a PHP DOM Parser, you can find simple dom parser here: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ and a small usage example is:

$array = array();
foreach($html->find('a') as $a) 
{
    $array[] = $a->href;
}

you you can use jQuery then you should be able to use this no problem as its selecting system is the same as jQuery aswell as CSS, as jQuery derives from CSS