Online PHP editor | output for BZMp9

<?php $imageTag = '<img src = http://nycxplorer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bagel1-1.jpg >'; //grab the src portion of the image tag $srcPattern = "/src.*?=.*?(\s|>)/s"; preg_match($srcPattern, $imageTag, $srcParts); $srcPart = $srcParts[0]; //remove all whitespace from within and around the src portion $srcPart = trim(preg_replace('/[\s]+/','', $srcPart)); print_r($srcpart); //grab the src URL $oldUrl = substr($srcPart, 4); //if there are quotes at the beginning of the url, cut them off if(strpos($oldUrl, '"') == 0 || strpos($oldUrl, "'") == 0) { $oldUrl = substr($oldUrl, 1, strlen($oldUrl)-2); } print_r($oldUrl); ?>