Get Link Text

Get Link Text

Here we find a function that uses a php regular expression to get the link text from a url such as <a href="http://www.phpro.org">Link</a>. Basically it will will catch anything between > and </a> and return that value


<?php
/**
 * @get the text of a url link
 *
 * @param string $url
 *
 * @return string
 *
 */
function getUrlLinkText($url)
{
    /*** find the link test ***/
    preg_match('/\>(.*)<\/a>/', $url, $matches);
    /*** return the match ***/
    return $matches[1];
}
/*** example usage ***/$url = '<a href="http://www.phpro.org" class="something" id="link_id">Url Text Link Here</a>';
echo getUrlLinkText($url);
?>