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Howdy_McGee
Howdy_McGee

Reputation: 10643

Add <span> after all starting anchor tags

I'm trying to add a span after all opening anchor tags no matter what is inside the anchor. I'm working in a CMS so $content will hold all my links and is a long HTML string.

I first tried str_replace() but it apparently doesn't use wildcards.

$content = str_replace( '<a href="%">', '<a href="%"><span class="fa"></span>', $content );

So then I tried preg_replace() but I not only do not know enough regex to do it, but I don't necessarily replace the things I find but instead find what I want to find then append the <span>. What is a good function to Find a my beginning anchors then append a <span> or any other data after it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 722

Answers (1)

DavidT
DavidT

Reputation: 2481

Use preg_replace

$content = preg_replace('/<a (.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/', '<a $1 ><span class="fa"></span>$2</a>', $content);

(.*?) is get anything, then the $1 corresponds to replacing the first (.*?) back in. Therefore the second occurrence is then placed where $2 is.

Upvotes: 3

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