Getting Title From HTML Links

[brendan3eb]

I'm trying to get the title from a string with an html link using this code:
<?php
$string = "<a href=/test>test link</a>";
$get_title = ereg_replace('<a href=[[:alpha:]]+://[^<>[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]+>([[:alpha:]])+</a>', '\1', $string);
echo $string;
?>

however, it just spits out the same HTML link, a bit of help please?

[ironik]

try replacing the \1 to \2. The first var usually stores the entire match, by the look of it you want the first 'sub match'. I'm not entirely familiar with the syntax for the expression (normally use perl regulars), but I think that should work.

[brendan3eb]

tried that and it didn't work, thanks for the suggestion though.

[coho75]

How about something like this?

<?php
$string = "<a href=/test>test link</a>";
echo strip_tags($string);
?>

[brendan3eb]

that worked! thanks. I found the problem on the first code, I did have it right with /1, but you have to type the link in perfect form to get the title.

[jamie]

hi,

something like

'<a href=[^>]+>(.*)<\/a>'

the [^>] matches anything except the closing bracket of the <a href> tag.

<added> too late - love the simple answer coho .. lol