Regex Replacement within an html tag

[mathceleb]

I want to convert div tags to anchor tags below

PHP Code:

$html = '<div class="PopActivateApply" style="background-color: #e0d2bc;">
                                    <img class="PopCloseApply" src="/sites/all/themes/tester/images/universities/pop_up_close.png" alt="Close" id="PopUpCloseApply">blahblahblah</div>';

$div_classes = array('PopActivateApply');
// replace div tags to anchor tag
foreach ($div_classes as $dc){
   $html =  preg_replace('/(\<)(div)( class\=\")(' . $dc . ')(.*)(\<\/)(div)(\>)/', '$1a$3$4$5$6a$8', $html);
} 


It's still showing it as a div tag afterwards.

[AndrewGSW]

$div_classes = array('PopActivateApply');

this creates an array with a single string element - the word 'PopActivateApply' - it has no connection to the variable $html

If you just want to replace 'div' with 'a' then I'm not sure why you need regex:

PHP Code:

$html1 = str_replace('<div', '<a', $html);
$html_final = str_replace('div>', 'a>', $html1); 


Regex might be useful if the html is malformed; that is, if there are unwanted spaces in the original.

[mathceleb]

Originally Posted by AndrewGSW

this creates an array with a single string element - the word 'PopActivateApply' - it has no connection to the variable $html

If you just want to replace 'div' with 'a' then I'm not sure why you need regex:

PHP Code:

$html1 = str_replace('<div', '<a', $html);
$html_final = str_replace('div>', 'a>', $html1); 


Regex might be useful if the html is malformed; that is, if there are unwanted spaces in the original.

I'm doing the array because we eventually want to use other div classes in there. I cannot use the code you posted above because we need to target certain div classes inside a large html string, not all div classes, but certain ones in the array only. I did not post the entire string so that things would not get garbled.

[gvre]

PHP Code:

$html = '<div class="PopActivateApply" style="background-color: #e0d2bc;"><img class="PopCloseApply" src="/sites/all/themes/tester/images/universities/pop_up_close.png" alt="Close" id="PopUpCloseApply">blahblahblah</div><div class="foo">foo</div>';

$div_classes = array('PopActivateApply', 'foo');
$replace_classes = implode("|", $div_classes);

$pattern = '#<div(.+?)class="(' . $replace_classes . ')"(.*?)>([^<]+)</div>#si';

$html = preg_replace($pattern, '<a\1class="\2" \3>\4</a>', $html); 


[jaubry]

Hello,
I've tryed :

PHP Code:

$html =  preg_replace('/(\<div)( class\=\")(' . $dc . ')([^\>]*\>)([^\<]*)(.*)(\<\/div\>)/', '<a$2$3$4$5$6</a>', $html); 


And it works for me.

Can you try ?