Question

I have this code that extracts the first image from an article in joomla:

<?php preg_match('/<img (.*?)>/', $this->article->text, $match); ?>
<?php echo $match[0]; ?>

Is there a way to extract all the images that are available in the article and not only one?

Answer 1

I may suggest first to not use Regular Expressions to parse HTML. You should use an appropiate parser such as DOMDocument::loadHTML which uses libxml.

Then you may query for the desired tags you want. Something like this may work (untested):

$doc = new DOMDocument; 
$doc->loadHTML($htmlSource);

$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$query = '//img';
$entries = $xpath->query($query);
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
  // $entry->getAttribute('src')
}