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gdvickery on 03/02/09

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Extract all links from a page using Regex

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These 4 lines of code can be used to extract and return all links from any page using regex patterns. If links are found, an array is returned, else boolean false is returned.

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$pageData = file_get_contents('http://geekforbrains.com');
if(preg_match_all('/<a\s+href=["\']([^"\']+)["\']/i', $pageData, $links, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER))
    return array_unique($links[1]);
return false;

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Posted By: Unreal on March 11, 2009

This is a bit more efficient

http://snipplr.com/view/12678/find-all-the-links-on-a-page/

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