Question

I am looking for some HTML Parser in PHP which can help me extract href values from the html source.

I looked at phpQuery and its best but it is to be too overkill for my needs and cosume a lot of CPU doing the extra stuff that I dont need.

I also checked

$dom = new DomDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

but it has problems parsing HTML5 tags.

Is there any better library/class or a way to do it?

Answer 1

Well, you can use regular expressions to extract the data:

$html = "This is some stuff right here. <a href='index.html'>Check this out!</a> <a href=herp.html>And this is another thing!</a> <a href=\"derp.html\">OH MY GOSH</a>";
preg_match_all('/href=[\'"]?([^\s\>\'"]*)[\'"\>]/', $html, $matches);
$hrefs = ($matches[1] ? $matches[1] : false);
print_r($hrefs);