how do I get the text between and in php

Question

I have html content with multiple links(a href) , I need to extract the text between the <a> tag.
I have to do it with php.
I tried this code :

  preg_match_all('/<a\s+href=["\']([^"\']+)["\']/i',$response['content']['html'], $result);

This seems to be not the appropriate solution.

Any help will be appreciated.

maybe you will use **DOM** instead of preg_match DOMDocument::loadHTML — donald123, Dec 02 '16 at 11:42
no ,preg_match_all can do the job, but the regex is not the right one i suppose , for example if i have this :text the regex pattern must give me "text " and not the text in a tag (https://hello.com). — nourhein chaieb, Dec 02 '16 at 11:48
You should *rarely* parse HTML with regex. Use [a PHP DOM parser](http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/) instead. — Jay Blanchard, Dec 02 '16 at 13:04
[please don't try to use a regex to parse html](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags) — Justin Wood, Dec 02 '16 at 14:55

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '16 at 14:52

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thanks for response , but I found the answer for my question , this works just fine for me , I just changed the regex expression and here is my code:

 preg_match_all('#<\s*?a href\b[^>]*>(.*?)</a\b[^>]*>#s',$response['content']['html'], $result);

answered Dec 02 '16 at 14:52

nourhein chaieb

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