Extracting a href and title out of this string

[kevinkhan]

Hi Guys,

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

PHP Code:

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


I set the html code as a string

PHP Code:

$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

PHP Code:


$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.

PHP Code:

 print_r($objListMatches[1]); 


Is there something wrong with the regular expression?



iv tryed this regular expression but it wont work

PHP Code:

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


[Lamped]

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

[Phil Jackson]

PHP Code:

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