Regular expression

PHP Code:

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$link_text = 'Apply now';
                                
$content = '<td align="right" class="apply">   <a href="http://domain.com?h=AJ&cm=Details_ApplyNow" onClick="ApplyNowClick(\'A7C6NP\');" title="Apply for this now!">Apply Now</a></td>';
                

$pattern = '|<a[^>]+>('.$link_text.')</[^>]+>|U';   
preg_match($pattern, $content, $output); 

                
$pattern = '/<[a]{1}(.*)?>(.*)<\/[a]{1}>/';  
$content = trim(preg_replace($pattern, '$1', $output[0])); 

... // then parse $content to get the href url 


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Is it possible to know what is wrong with the regular expression to get the href of this tag?
<td align="right" class="apply"> <a href="http://domain.com?h=AJ&cm=Details_ApplyNow" onClick="ApplyNowClick(\'A7C6NP\');" title="Apply for this now!">Apply Now</a></td>

Not getting anything in $output. I've this code working for a similar <a ..> tag.

Thanks!

This regex

Code:

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'/<a[^>]+>(Apply now)<\/a>/i'

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returns this

Code:

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Array
(
    [0] => <a href="http://domain.com?h=AJ&cm=Details_ApplyNow" onClick="ApplyNowClick(\'A7C6NP\');" title="Apply for this now!">Apply Now</a>
    [1] => Apply Now
)

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Doesn't look very useful to me.
What is it you want to achieve with this code?

If you need only the href, try the following pattern

PHP Code:

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$pattern = '#href="([^"]+)"#i'; 


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