如何匹配正则表达式中的文本

Question

I have a text

<div class="ti"><div class="pic">
        <a href="/categories/rr/1.html"><img src="http://www.erty.com/images/440f2d2a.jpg" alt="Ind"> <span>Ind</span></a> (98)
    </div></div><div class="ti"><div class="pic">
        <a href="/categories/ert/1.html"><img src="http://www.erty.com/images/4123d2b.jpg" alt="Wes"> <span>Wes</span></a> (6044)
    </div></div>

How Can I use preg_match_all in PHP to get

1. /categories/rr/1.html

2. http://www.erty.com/images/440f2d2a.jpg

3. Ind

4. 98

for all entries.

I tried

preg_match_all('|[^<div class="ti"><div class="pic">].*?[^<\/div><\/div>]+|',
$test_html,
$out, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);

But its not working.

Answer 1

Never try to parse HTML with RegExp.

Since your html file is probably also an XML file, try this.

$html = "<div class="ti"><div class="pic"><a href="/categories/rr/1.html"><img src="http://www.erty.com/images/440f2d2a.jpg" alt="Ind"> <span>Ind</span></a></div></div><div class="ti"><div class="pic"><a href="/categories/ert/1.html"><img src="http://www.erty.com/images/4123d2b.jpg" alt="Wes"> <span>Wes</span></a></div></div>";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$sxml = simplexml_import_dom($doc);

Or, if you're scraping a website you'd better use jQuery selectors in a node.js app.