Question

Im trying to grab the destination (dynamic) of a link (static) with php

Im not sure what the best way to do this is.

the link is

<a href=page.php?XXYYYYYYY>LinkName</a>

the X’s are letters and the Y’s are numbers (both can vary in length). ‘Linkname’ always stays the same though.

Is regex the best option here? Or is there a better way?

Answer 1

I would use a DOM parser like PHP’s built in one or simpleHTMLDOMParser to extract the link, and parse_url() to analyze the URL:

This function parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present.