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phpregexanchorhtml-parser
Bipin Chandra Tripathi
Bipin Chandra Tripathi

Reputation: 2620

finding all anchor tags with pdf file as the source in php using regex or HTML parser

how can i find all the anchor tags with source pdf 

$string="hello this is a dummy text <a href="../../abc.pdf">

i need only abc.pdf in the string variable

Upvotes: 0

Views: 708

Answers (1)

flowfree
flowfree

Reputation: 16462

You should use DOMDocument instead of regex:

$string='hello this is a dummy text <a href="../../abc.pdf">'; 
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHTML($string);

$href = $doc->getElementsByTagName('a')->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
echo basename($href); // abc.pdf

Upvotes: 1

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