Using regular expressions to extract the first image source from html codes?

Question

I would like to know how this can be achieved.

Assume: That there\'s a lot of html code containing tables, divs, images, etc.

Problem: How can I get matches

Answer 1

I really think you can not predict all the cases with on regular expression.

The best way is to use the DOM with the PHP5 class DOMDocument and xpath. It's the cleanest way to do what you want.

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML( $htmlContent );
$xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom);
$images = $xml -> xpath('//img/@src');