Help with preg_match - php !

[softleaks]

Hi everyone !

Take a look at the source of this webpage :

http://mp3.tamilwire.com/mankatha-2011.html


So this source page has many links with it.(<a></a>)

But this page has links to 5 mp3 songs. They are :

<a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Vilayadu%20Mankatha%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Vilayadu Mankatha ? TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (11.1 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Dia%20Dia%20Dole%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Dia Dia Dole ? TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (7.4 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Goa%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Goa ? TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (8.4 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Theeratha%20Vilaiyattu%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Theeratha Vilaiyattu ? TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (8.9 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Yogi%20Yogi%20Thaan%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Yogi Yogi Thaan ? TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (7.0 MB)</li>


If you take a close look at these links, these links are distinct from other links in the page.

1. These are the only 5 links which have an extension ".mp3"
2. These are the only 5 links which start with "http://download" at the beginning.


So i want now is to grab these 5 links alone from this page using php code.

This can be possibly done by the " preg_match " statement.

A statement like this will select the entire links from page :

$res=file_get_contents($url);
preg_match('/<a([^>]+)\>(.*?)\<\/a\>/i',$res,$match);


What i want you to do is that , you should change the preg_match statement (i mean the regular expression in it) so that it select only the above five mp3 links from the page.

Thanks.

softleaks Reviewed by softleaks on 21st May 2011. Help with preg_match - php ! Hi everyone ! Take a look at the source of this webpage : http://mp3.tamilwire.com/mankatha-2011.html So this source page has many links with it.(<a></a>) But this page has links to 5 mp3 songs. They are : Rating: 5

[CJ]

preg_match('/http:\/\/download.tamilwire.com(.*?).mp3/i',$source,$match); 

^ this should work

[softleaks]

@ humour

so the first link should be stored in $match[1] right ?

[CJ]

^ no
$match[0]
if u want to match all mp3 links than

preg_match_all('/http:\/\/download.tamilwire.com(.*?).mp3/i',$source,$match); 

now
$match[0][0]
$match[0][1]
$match[0][2]
& so on will store ur links


example:
for

<a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Vilayadu%20Mankatha%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Vilayadu Mankatha – TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (11.1 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Dia%20Dia%20Dole%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Dia Dia Dole – TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (7.4 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Goa%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Goa – TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (8.4 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Theeratha%20Vilaiyattu%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Theeratha Vilaiyattu – TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (8.9 MB)</li> <a target="_blank" href="http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Yogi%20Yogi%20Thaan%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3">Yogi Yogi Thaan – TamilWire.com.mp3</a> (7.0 MB)</li>

when u use

preg_match_all('/http:\/\/download.tamilwire.com(.*?).mp3/i',$source,$match); 

u will get

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Vilayadu%20Mankatha%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3
            [1] => http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Dia%20Dia%20Dole%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3
            [2] => http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Goa%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3
            [3] => http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Theeratha%20Vilaiyattu%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3
            [4] => http://download.tamilwire.com/songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Yogi%20Yogi%20Thaan%20-%20TamilWire.com.mp3
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => /songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Vilayadu%20Mankatha%20-%20TamilWire.com
            [1] => /songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Dia%20Dia%20Dole%20-%20TamilWire.com
            [2] => /songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Goa%20-%20TamilWire.com
            [3] => /songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Theeratha%20Vilaiyattu%20-%20TamilWire.com
            [4] => /songs/__K_O_By_Movies/Mankatha/Yogi%20Yogi%20Thaan%20-%20TamilWire.com
        )

)

[jinimran]

thanks sir

[softleaks]

@ humour

thank you very much.