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Arwed
Arwed

Reputation: 97

PHP - How to replace a phrase with another?

How can i replace this <p><span class="headline"> with this <p class="headline"><span> easiest with PHP.

$data = file_get_contents("http://www.ihr-apotheker.de/cs1.html");
$clean1 = strstr($data, '<p>');
$str = preg_replace('#(<a.*>).*?(</a>)#', '$1$2', $clean1);
$ausgabe = strip_tags($str, '<p>');
echo $ausgabe;

Before I alter the html from the site I want to get the class declaration from the span to the <p> tag.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 876

Answers (4)

Dylan West
Dylan West

Reputation: 602

Have you tried using str_replace?

If the placement of the <p> and <span> tags are consistent, you can simply replace one for the other with

str_replace("replacement", "part to replace", $string);

Upvotes: 0

Gordon
Gordon

Reputation: 316979

Well, answer was accepted already, but anyway, here is how to do it with native DOM:

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTMLFile("http://www.ihr-apotheker.de/cs1.html");
$xPath = new DOMXpath($dom);

// remove links but keep link text
foreach($xPath->query('//a') as $link) {
    $link->parentNode->replaceChild(
        $dom->createTextNode($link->nodeValue), $link);
}

// switch classes    
foreach($xPath->query('//p/span[@class="headline"]') as $node) {
    $node->removeAttribute('class');
    $node->parentNode->setAttribute('class', 'headline');
}
echo $dom->saveHTML();

On a sidenote, HTML has elements for headings, so why not use a <h*> element instead of using the semantically superfluous "headline" class.

Upvotes: 1

Elle H
Elle H

Reputation: 12217

The reason not to parse HTML with regex is if you can't guarantee the format. If you already know the format of the string, you don't have to worry about having a complete parser.

In your case, if you know that's the format, you can use str_replace

str_replace('<p><span class="headline">', '<p class="headline"><span>', $data);

Upvotes: 1

Christian Smorra
Christian Smorra

Reputation: 1754

dont parse html with regex! this class should provide what you need http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 3

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