Match all links which have specified text ?

Can you show us some of the html or text you are "crawling"?

bol

The code below should get the entire "a" tag. Is that what you need?

preg_match_all('@<a [^>]+showthread.php[^>]*>@', $html, $matches);

Thanks but when I tried with  this http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68 then the result array is :

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => <a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=624761" title="Go to first unread post in thread 'Record Breaking Downtime by Newista (Some Logic Inc)'">
            [1] => <a href="showthread.php?p=4640078#post4640078">
            [2] => <a href="showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=623727" title="Go to first unread post in thread 'Understanding and Verifying Uptime Guarantees'">
            [3] => <a href="showthread.php?p=4637807#post4637807">
...

I think it would be difficult but are there any way for me to echo the file name in each match ( eg this array is showthread.php ) and the vars after the file name to be an array where keys are the requested variables ( p, goto, t ... ) and values are  the strings to request ? ( something like this :

showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=624761

Array
(
      [0] => Array (
                  [0] => Array (
                        [0] => "showthread.php"
                        [1] => Array (
                              [goto] => "newpost"
                              [t] => "624761"
                        }      
            )
      )
)

Thanks but when I tried your code, the output is :

Warning: explode() [function.explode]: Empty delimiter. in C:\xampp\htdocs\1.php on line 14

where line 14 is the

$temp_param2[]=explode($temp_param1[$pair],'=');

and the $temp_param1 is :

Array
(
    [0] => &
)

So I edit the code into :

$a = preg_replace('/showthread.php\?(.*)/','$1','showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=624761');
$b=explode('&',$a);
foreach ($b as $c) {
    $d=explode('=',$c);
      print_r($d);
}

And the result is :

Array
(
    [0] => goto
    [1] => newpost
)
Array
(
    [0] => t
    [1] => 624761
)

But are there any way for me to get this array into :

Array
(
    [goto] => "newpost"
    [t] => "624761"
)

Seems that MasonWolf's text is exactly what you were looking for.

MasonWolf,
Just looking at your code I think will make lots of use from it

fibo,

Always appreciate a compliment! Hope it helps you down the road.

I'm sorry for being careless like that. MasonWolf's answer is great and thank you very much.