Extracting a href and title out of this string

Hi Guys,

I want to get the href and title out of this html code below..

<li class="images"><a href="www.something.com/firstpage/" title="title1"><span>7</span></a></li>

I set the html code as a string


$strContent= "<li class="images"><a href="www.something.com/firstpage/" title="title1"><span>7</span></a></li>";

and set up this funtion with the regular expression below



$strListMatches = '!<li class="images" href="(.*)" title="(.*)"><span>(.*)</span</a></li>!isU';


function getMatches($strMatch,$strContent)
{
if(preg_match_all($strMatch,$strContent,$objMatches))
{
return $objMatches;
}
return "";
}

i tryed this piece of code to print the title but it wont work.

print_r($objListMatches[1]);

Is there something wrong with the regular expression?



iv tryed this regular expression but it wont work :(

$strListMatches = '!<li class="images" href="(.*)" title="(.*)"><span>(.*)</span></a></li>!isU';

Don't use .* unless you fully understand it. If you want to extract a quoted section, you should use ".*?" or "[^"]*"

#<[^>]*href=\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*>#is