Parse Website for URLs

Question

Just wondering if someone can help me further with the following. I want to parse the URL on this website:http://www.directorycritic.com/free-directory-list.html?pg=1&so

Answer 1

Use HTML Dom Parser

$html = file_get_html('http://www.example.com/');

// Find all links
$links = array(); 
foreach($html->find('a') as $element) 
       $links[] = $element->href;

Now links array contains all URLs of given page and you can use these URLs to parse further.

Parsing HTML with regular expressions is not a good idea. Here are some related posts:

• Using regular expressions to parse HTML: why not?
• RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

EDIT:

Some Other HTML Parsing tools as described by Gordon in comments below:

• phpQuery
• Zend_Dom
• QueryPath
• FluentDom