Question

Hello ,

im using the following code to Retrieve the DOM from URL
all “A” tags and print their HREFs
Now my output is contain “A” i dont want its my out is here
http://trend.remal.com/parsing.php

i need to clear my out to be only the name after http://twitter.com/namehere

so output print list of “namehere”

    include('simple_html_dom.php');

 // Retrieve the DOM from a given URL
 $html = file_get_html('http://tweepar.com/sa/1/');
 $urls = array();

  foreach ( $html->find('a') as $e )
  {
  // If it's a twitter link
  if ( strpos($e->href, '://twitter.com/') !== false )
  {
    // and we don't have it in the array yet
    if ( ! in_array($urls, $e->href) )
    {
        // add it to our array
        $urls[] = $e->href;
    }
   }
   }

  echo implode('<br>', $urls);

echo $e->href . '<br>';

Answer 1

Instead of simply using $urls[] = $e->href, use a regex to match the username:

preg_match('~twitter.com/(.+)~', $e->href, $matches);
$urls[] = $matches[1];