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Hi All
I am new to PHP and just got a project ;) that needs me to extract links from the page, i have got the part of page that have links in a string and was wondering if i can extract all the links in that string.

String is

<div class="usrsbt">
<div style="border-top: 2px solid rgb(255, 153, 0); border-left: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); border-right: 1px solid rgb(233, 233, 233); width: 100px; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 5px; cursor: pointer;">Submitted Links</div><hr size="1" width="550" color="#e9e9e9"><div style="overflow: auto; max-height: 250px;"><div style="margin-top: 5px;"></div><div style="margin-top: 2px; width: 550px; height: 20px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); font-size: 13px;"><div style="float: left; font-variant: small-caps;">movie link (megavideo) :</div><div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px;">Link <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://www.megavideo.com/?v=q8mlbpov">1</a> </div><div style="float: right;"><a href="javascript:DeadLink('http://www.movies-on-demand.tv/report.php?id=2345')"><img title="Report Dead Link" src="http://img.movies-on-demand.tv/templates/mod/images/broken.gif"></a></div></div><div style="margin-top: 2px; width: 550px; height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px;"><div style="float: left; font-variant: small-caps;">movie link (supernovatube) :</div><div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px;">Link <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://www.supernovatube.com/human.php?viewkey=870858bae14ac0b6d9f7">1</a> </div><div style="float: right;"><a href="javascript:DeadLink('http://www.movies-on-demand.tv/report.php?id=2345')"><img title="Report Dead Link" src="http://img.movies-on-demand.tv/templates/mod/images/broken.gif"></a></div></div><div style="margin-top: 2px; width: 550px; height: 20px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233); font-size: 13px;"><div style="float: left; font-variant: small-caps;">movie link (Zshare) :</div><div style="float: left; margin-left: 10px;">Link <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://www.supernovatube.com/human.php?viewkey=25b5152132ed77abbcc7">1</a><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://megavideo.com/?v=qz3563j8">2</a> <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://megavideo.com/?v=e0an8vlj">3</a> <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" href="http://megavideo.com/?v=ppp3oaws">4</a> </div><div style="float: right;"><a href="javascript:DeadLink('http://www.movies-on-demand.tv/report.php?id=2345')"><img title="Report Dead Link" src="http://img.movies-on-demand.tv/templates/mod/images/broken.gif"></a></div></div><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 102); font-weight: bold; margin-left: 30px; float: right; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 14px;" target="resultframe" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="javascript:alert('You do not have permission to submit links. Please register and login to enable link submission.');">+ Add Link</a></div></div><br clear="all">

the names you are seeing in red are categories and green are links under them respectively so i want to have category names and links under it, that i can put in a db table.

Please help
Thanks in advance

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  • Latest Post Latest Post by martin5211
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Hi,

I'm returning to this forum from long time ago... Looking at this issue it isn't difficult at all... just dealing a bit with regular expressions, preg_match_all() should be the function that is worth to use e.g.
to store all links into an array:

$pattern = "/href=\x22([^\x22]*)\x22/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $links);

Then, would be cool to take away javascript stuff from links, populating a new array e.g.

foreach($links[1] as $link){
	if(strpos($link, "javascript") === FALSE){
		$filtered_links[] = $link;
	}	
}

Little tuning would be necessary on the search pattern to extract the names on another array and use of mysql_query() to insert the arrays into a database.

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