printing .pdf links from a web page (see attaced pic)

Hi, yes you can do it using PHP using preg_match() function.

an example below

<?php
$html_page_source = "your web page with pdf links";
 
preg_match_all('/\b(https?):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]\.pdf/i', $html_page_source, $links);
 
foreach($links['0'] as $link)
{
echo $link."<br>\n";
}
 
?>

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Ok.   Understand scripting, but I'm new to PHP..  is it like perl?   Do I save the above to a file?  if so, name?  extension?   how to run it?    can i save it to a .bat file, then click it?  

This is the url below, but it requires a login/pwd ..   it's not my account so i'd rather not post that info on experts-exch..

http://www.valueline.com/secure/vlispdf/stk1700/index.aspx

Do you know a link to good site containing some PHP basic scripting info?

here's an tutorial: http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php.html
Good luck

al3cs12 :    nothing happens when i run this from command line  :         c:\php\php.exe  -f  c:\php\script\VLScript_1.php

I added the correct url to your script in a file i named VLScript_1.php    -->    

<?php
$html_page_source = "http://www.valueline.com/secure/vlispdf/stk1700/index.aspx";
 
preg_match_all('/\b(https?):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|]\.pdf/i', $html_page_source, $links);
 
foreach($links['0'] as $link)
{
echo $link."<br>\n";
}
 
?>

when you arrive at the page with the pdf links apply my script and it will work. To get to that page http://www.valueline.com/secure/vlispdf/stk1700/index.aspx as i see you need to login using http auth, that is achieved using function curl(). Good luck

al3cs12  -     could you show me what u mean relating to login / pwd  using  curl()  function?

So, then the php script does the login/pwd to the url?    

Thanks again for reply.    If the script works as expected, I will close out this question and give you the points.    

al3cs12 :  if you still are willing to help me get this script working.

i get a "parse error" in line 8 of the above login script :     curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ USERPWD, $details);

is single quotes the correct way to enclose the login:pwd ?