Taken over old site

[Nickel01]

hello...I've taken over an old site to look after; which has 1000's of html links (no I'm not exagerating)
these pages are like index_a.html, index_b.html & on those pages are hundreds of links to documents stored in another folder.
I'm trying to retrieve the list of links from the index pages; display them on a page with pagination (700+ links is a lot of scolling)
This however is as far as I've got ( after many hours of searching)

$fcontents = file( 'http://localhost/harriet/harriet/public/index_author_o.html' );
while ( list( , $line ) = each( $fcontents ) ) {
while ( eregi(
'(href[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"?[[:alnum:]:@/._-]+"?)(.*)', $line,
$regs ) ) {
echo "Got '$regs[1]'<br>\n";
$line = $regs[2];
}
}
this outputs as :
Got 'href="review/moon_boy"'
Got 'href="review/the_agree"'
Got 'href="review/sword_of_oban"'
etc...omiited the remaining links ...lol
whereas what I need to display is
<a href="review/dining_with_devils">DINING WITH DEVILS</A> by Gordon Smith<BR>'
as a normal html link

[JAMES_911]

You will have to use regular expressions to get the list of links from an HTML page, something like for example:

<?
$fcontents = file( 'http://www.techarena.in/news/' );
while ( list( , $line ) = each( $fcontents ) ) {
while ( eregi(
'(href[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*"?[[:alnum:]:@/._-]+"?)(.*)', $line,
$regs ) ) {
echo "Got '$regs[1]'<br>\n";

$line = $regs[2];
}
}
?>

Taken fron the PHP List, only change i made to the script was the removal of "news/" path.

[Nickel01]

Thanks for your post.JAMES_911..but that still just gives me the same as I already have
a list of results in the form of
<a href="review/dining_with_devils"
the actual pages display a list of links
If I was to write it in html it would be

<a href="review/dining_with_devils">DINING WITH DEVILS</A> by Gordon Smith<BR>'
& a visitor would see DINING WITH DEVILS by Gordon Smith..with
DINING WITH DEVILS being an active link
so maybe a more accurate question is how do I obtain all the information & then display it as active links...as I see it the address is in 3 parts
$link=review/dining_with_devils
$name=DINING WITH DEVILS
$rest_of _stuff=by Gordon Smith<BR>
I am trying to display it on a page as
<a href=\"$link\">$name</a>$rest_of _stuff