I'd like a reg exp which can take a block of string, and find the strings matching the format:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">....</a>
And for all strings which match this format, it will extract out the email address found after the mailto:. Any thoughts?
This is needed for an internal app and not for any spammer purposes!
There are plenty of different options on regexp.info
One example would be:
\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}\b
The "mailto:" is trivial to prepend to that.
/(mailto:)(.+)(\")/
The second matching group will be the email address.
You can work with the internal PHP filter http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php
(they have one which is specially there for validating or sanitizing email -> FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)
Greets
If you want to match the whole thing from :
$r = '`\<a([^>]+)href\=\"mailto\:([^">]+)\"([^>]*)\>(.*?)\<\/a\>`ism';
preg_match_all($r,$html, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
To fastern and shortern it:
$r = '`\<a([^>]+)href\=\"mailto\:([^">]+)\"([^>]*)\>`ism';
preg_match_all($r,$html, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
The 2nd matching group will be whatever email it is.
Example:
$html ='<div><a href="mailto:[email protected]">test</a></div>';
$r = '`\<a([^>]+)href\=\"mailto\:([^">]+)\"([^>]*)\>(.*?)\<\/a\>`ism';
preg_match_all($r,$html, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
var_dump($matches);
Output:
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(5) {
[0]=>
string(39) "test"
[1]=>
string(1) " "
[2]=>
string(13) "[email protected]"
[3]=>
string(0) ""
[4]=>
string(4) "test"
}
}