How to find a URL from a content by PHP?

Question

need a simply preg_match, which will find \"c.aspx\" (without quotes) in the content if it finds, it will return the whole url. As a example

$content = \'


        
      

Answer 1

You use DOM to parse HTML, not regex. You can use regex to parse the attribute value though.

Edit: updated example so it checks for c.aspx.

$content = '
[4]New message

foo


';

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

$anchors = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');

if ( count($anchors->length) > 0 ) {
    foreach ( $anchors as $anchor ) {
        if ( $anchor->hasAttribute('href') ) {
            $link = $anchor->getAttribute('href');
            if ( strpos( $link, 'c.aspx') ) {
                echo $link;
            }
        }
    }
}