Question

I’m looking for a library, class, function, etc that I can feed it a string of html and find things like src or href. I know tht I can find a regex for specific cases, but i’m looking for a library that makes it easy to get stuff without figuring out a new regex each time.

Answer 1

SimpleHTMLDOM is your friend in this scenario. REGEX is never the best way (for HTML tags).

Example:

$html = file_get_html('http://www.google.com/');

// Find all images 
foreach($html->find('img') as $element) {
       echo $element->src . '<br>'; # givs you the image 'src' attribute for each image on that page.
}