Preg_match_all not working on yahoo results - php

Question

Ok, so the preg_match_all wont work towards Yahoo.
I'm trying to preg_match_all the results i get from Yahoo using a cURL curl_multi_getcontent method.
I have succeeded to fetch the site and so, but when I'm trying to get the result of the links, it wont match anything. When I'm using the regex in Notepad++ it succeeds but not in PHP apparently.
I'm currently using:
preg_match_all(
'#<span class="url" id="(.*?)">(.+?)</span>#si', $urlContents[2], $yahoo
);
Check the HTML at [http://se.search.yahoo.com/search?p=random&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t][1] for example and you will see that all links start with <span class="url" id="something random"> and ends with </span>.
Could someone possible help me with how I should retreive this information?
I only need the actual link address to each result.
Entire PHP Script
public function multiSearch($question)
{
$sites['google'] = "http://www.google.com/search?q={$question}&gl=sv";
$sites['bing'] = "http://www.bing.com/search?q={$question}";
$sites['yahoo'] = "http://se.search.yahoo.com/search?p={$question}";
$urlHandler = array();
foreach($sites as $site)
{
$handler = curl_init();
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_URL, $site);
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($handler, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
array_push($urlHandler, $handler);
}
$multiHandler = curl_multi_init();
foreach($urlHandler as $key => $url)
{
curl_multi_add_handle($multiHandler, $url);
}
$running = null;
do
{
curl_multi_exec($multiHandler, $running);
}
while($running > 0);
$urlContents = array();
foreach($urlHandler as $key => $url)
{
$urlContents[$key] = curl_multi_getcontent($url);
}
foreach($urlHandler as $key => $url)
{
curl_multi_remove_handle($multiHandler, $url);
}
foreach($urlContents as $urlContent)
{
preg_match_all('/<li class="g">(.*?)<\/li>/si', $urlContent, $matches);
//$this->view_data['results'][] = "Random";
}
preg_match_all('#<cite>(.+?)</cite>#si', $urlContents[1], $googleLinks);
preg_match_all('#<span class="url" id="(.*)">(.+?)</span>#si', $urlContents[2], $yahoo);
var_dump($yahoo);
die();
$findHtml = array('/<cite>/', '/<\/cite>/', '/<b>/', '/<\/b>/', '/ /', '/"/', '/<strong>/', '/<\/strong>/');
$removeHtml = array('', '', '', '', '', '', '', '');
foreach($googleLinks as $links => $val)
{
foreach($val as $link)
$this->view_data['results'][] = preg_replace($findHtml, $removeHtml, $link);
break;
}
}

Answer 1

First off, you should not use regular expressions to process HTML. There are pretty good DOM parsers available for PHP. For example:
$d = new DOMDocument;
$d->loadHTML($s);
$x = new DOMXPath($d);
foreach ($x->query('//span[#class="url"]') as $node) {
// process each node the way you wish
// print the id for instance
echo $node->getAttribute('id'), PHP_EOL;
}
Besides that, the expression should work except that id="(.*)" is greedy; that can be fixed with:
#<span class="url" id="(.*?)">(.+?)</span>#si
It's possible that there's more text after id="..." and the >; that would bring the expression to:
#<span class="url" id="(.*?)"[^>]*>(.+?)</span>#si