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Mohammad Masoudian
Mohammad Masoudian

Reputation: 3501

str_replace manipulates html tags

i wrote a script that search a html content and replace some keywords with linked keyword

Code: 

$text = '<p>hello</p>
<img src="hello.png" />';

echo str_replace('hello', '<a href="hello">hello</a>', $text);

Result: 

<p><a href="hello">hello</a></p>
<img src="<a href="hello">hello</a>.png" />

now you can see the src attribute of image is manipulated an i dont want this.

how to exclude img tag html tags being searched for replace?

any help will be appreciated

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1623

Answers (2)

Hossam Aldeen Ahmed
Hossam Aldeen Ahmed

Reputation: 782

try regex 

$text = '<p>hello</p>
<img src="hello.png" />';
echo preg_replace("/hello(?!.(png|jpg))/", "<a href='hello'>here</a>", $text);

Upvotes: 0

Rusty Bishop
Rusty Bishop

Reputation: 11

Simpler solution

echo str_replace('<p>hello</p>', '<a href="hello"></a>', $text);

Wide range REGEX solution

Check this : http://www.thatsquality.com/articles/how-to-match-and-replace-content-between-two-html-tags-using-regular-expressions

PHPDOM solution

Check this : http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php

Upvotes: 1

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