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[Phaze]

Need help to understand how to use regex to get pruductID and image url from string.
I manage to get it one by one, but i want to have one regex for it so it come in order in the array
when i use preg_match......

Code:

                       
   <div class="thumbnailbox">
     <a href="getboxnow.php?pruductid=panther" target="_top">                               
     <img src="http://www.site.com/tmbImage.jpg" alt="panther" title="panther" border="0" height="75" width="100"></a>           
   </div> 

[Bompa]

Need help to understand how to use regex to get pruductID and image url from string.
I manage to get it one by one, but i want to have one regex for it so it come in order in the array
when i use preg_match......

Code:

                       
   <div class="thumbnailbox">
     <a href="getboxnow.php?pruductid=panther" target="_top">                               
     <img src="http://www.site.com/tmbImage.jpg" alt="panther" title="panther" border="0" height="75" width="100"></a>           
   </div> 

So you want 'panter' in this example?

It can be a bear.

What I almost always do is get ALL the href's on the page, then filter out the one I want.

href="getboxnow.php?pruductid=panther"

So, in perl...

while($content_of_page =~ /href="(.*?)"/sig) {
  $thisLink = $1;
  print "$thisLink\n";
}

That should print every href tag on the page.

Next, I would probably eliminate those that do not contain "productid="

while($content_of_page =~ /href="(.*?)"/sig) {
  $thisLink = $1;
  unless($thisLink =~ /productid=/) { next; }
  print "$thisLink\n";
}

See where I'm going?

This is my main, most used, most reliable method.

If I am feeling bold, I might put getboxnow.php? in the first while loop:

while($content_of_page =~ /href="getboxnow.php?(.*?)"/sig) {
  $thisLink = $1;
  print "$thisLink\n";
}

or something like that.  Untested, have a ball.

Bompa

PS: On each new CMS, I grab the source code and practice offline
which saves a lot of time.

[Phaze]

yes it's panther and http://www.site.com i want to put in an array with preg_match_all().
And i have no problem to get all productsID or url into an array it's when i want to put both
in the same array with preg_match_all() i got problem.
Now i don't know if thats possible but i think it's possible to do it with one regex call.
Every tutorial i find explain how to get all url's but no one explain how to parse two values
in one query.

I need something like this:

Code:

<div class="thumbnailbox"><a[^>]+?href="([^"]+)".*?<img[^>]+?src="([^"]+\.jpg)"<\/div>

But all i get is emty arrays.

[Bompa]

yes it's panther and http://www.site.com i want to put in an array with preg_match_all().
And i have no problem to get all productsID or url into an array it's when i want to put both
in the same array with preg_match_all() i got problem.

OH, well, whatever is within the first set of parentheseses will be in $1; second set
of parentheseses $2, etc.

I don't know how to actually get them into an array with php, but in perl we use push.

push(@array, "$1 $2");


Bompa

[Phaze]

I solved the problem after some trial and error. Thanx for your time