Get Element Attribute with cURL (PHP)

I don't know much about cURL, but I am pretty sure that is what I would use to accomplish this. I need some help here.

I want to get the value of an attribute from a specific element on an HTML page.

This is the code:

I want to get the link url from the <a> element with the id of "linkSkip" and put that in a variable.

Could anyone help with this?

you can use this >> http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/index.htm

here's the manual with an example that matches yours >> http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm

Originally Posted by cableguy you can use this >> http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/index.htm here's the manual with an example that matches yours >> http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm

Thanks! I'll take a look at that.

I was hoping to do it in a few lines of code without a class, though. This is for a simple phpBB mod to combat a certain type of spam (linkbucks) that is used frequently on a forum I visit. Just want to visit one page, grab this link, and return it. I'm afraid all of this is overkill just for that one technique.

I'll go through the code for this though and see if I can use some of it.

You could alternatively use preg_match (et al.) with regex if you are not wanting a full class..

<a\b[^>]*>(.*?)</a>

or

<a href="(.*?)">

If you dont want the content and end tag.

Should return the all the links.... Then where you go from there im not sure. Either another regex to get id and href or something.

regex?

Originally Posted by AvisSpevak regex ?

To find out, see http://lmgtfy.com/?q=regex