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

if the format is always the same, u can probably sort it out with a combination of explode and strip_tags something like

 $html="whatever"


 $href=end(explode('"',strip_tags($html)));