how can I skip something in regex? - php

Question

I want to see all field input and textarea but I don't know how to
show it together in the same code.
and in case I want to skip something for example I want to write
directly input name without make him check the type or I don't want him to show me the readonly so how can I do it ?
<form method="post" action="" id="submit_form">
<input type="text" name="TITLE" value="" size="40" maxlength="100" class="text" />
<textarea name="DESCRIPTION" rows="4" cols="36" class="textarea"></textarea>
<input type="text" name="DESCRIPTION_limit" size="4" class="limit_field" readonly="readonly" value="250" />
<textarea name="ARTICLE" id="ARTICLE" rows="6" cols="50" class="textarea"></textarea>
<input type="text" name="META_KEYWORDS" value="" size="40" maxlength="2000" class="text" />
preg_match_all('/<(input)[\s](type)="?([^>"]*)"?[\s](name)="?([^>"]*)"?[\s]/', file_get_contents($url), $matches);
echo"<pre>";
print_r($matches);

Answer 1

I tested this code with the line "$string". Type and Name attributes can be in any order in the input tag, and it searches until it reads a ">" character.
$string = '<input type="text" name="TITLE" value="" size="40" maxlength="100" class="text" />';
preg_match_all('/<input[^>]*?(?:(type)="([^"]*)")|(?:(name)="([^"]*)")/', $string, $matches);
if($matches[1][0] == "type" && $matches[3][1] == "name"){
$type = $matches[2][0];
$name = $matches[4][1];
}
elseif($matches[1][0] == "name" && $matches[3][1] == "type"){
$name = $matches[2][0];
$type = $matches[4][1];
}
else{
throw new Exception('no input tags with type and name attributes were found!');
}
echo $type;
echo $name;