Question

How to get text: “Text example max” from:

<td valign="top" align="left">

    <a href="/server?tree=xabaf"
    class="normal"> Text example max </a>

</td>

using regular expression?

include('simple_html_dom.php');
$ch = curl_init('http://www.site.com?id=325235');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$sss = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

preg_match_all("#class="normal"?</a>$#", $sss, $arr);

Answer 1

Solution using REGEX

$text = "<a href='/server?tree=xabaf' class='normal'> Text example max </a>
";
$regex_pattern = "/<a href=\"?\'?(.*)\"?\'?>(.*)<\/a&gt/";
preg_match_all($regex_pattern,$text,$matches);

PHP’s DOM

$text = "<a href='/server?tree=xabaf' class='normal'> Text example max </a>";
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($text);
$links = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($links as $link){
    echo $link->textContent;
}

Use DOM and not regex.