Regular Expressions

[nfn]

Hi,

I'm not a regex man, so I need some help to make a search & replace!
I get from a table an article body and I want to find any anchor that as an image tag and apply a specific css class to the anchor;

Reading some tutorials I already reach something that I think it works, but I need to replace the string.

PHP Code:

$a = '<a href="image/test.gif"><img src="image/test.gif" /></a>';

if (preg_match("/^(<a href.*?<img src.*?<\/a>)$/", $a, $matches)) {
  echo "Match was found <br />";
  echo htmlspecialchars($matches[0])."<br>";

} 


I need to find '<a href' AND '<img src' AND '</a>' ... if it finds this pattern then should replace '<a href' with '<a href class="abcd"'.

Thanks

N

Edited: I forgot to mention that the image must be the same in the anchor and in the image tag!

[Mwnciau]

Try this:

PHP Code:


$text = '<a href="image/test.gif"><img src="image/test.gif" /></a>';

$text = preg_replace( '#<a(.*?)>(.*?<img.*?)</a>#is', '<a$1 class="abcd">$2</a>', $text );

echo $text; 


Outputs:

<a href="image/test.gif" class="abcd"><img src="image/test.gif" /></a>

[nfn]

That works ...

It is possible to match the image file 'path/name'.
It needs to be the same in the anchor and in the img tag.

This class only applies to images!

Thanks, N

[Mwnciau]

Ok, try this instead:

PHP Code:

$text = preg_replace( '#<a(.*?href="(.*?)".*?)>(.*?<img.*?src="\2".*?)</a>#is', '<a$1 class="abcd">$3</a>', $text ); 


[shyam]

PHP Code:

$a = '<a href="image/test.gif"><img src="image/test.gif" /></a>';
$text = preg_replace(
    '/<a href="([^"]+)">\w*<img src="\1" ?\/>\w*<\/a>/', 
    '<a href="$1"><img class="abcd" src="$1"/></a>', 
    $a);
echo $text 


[nfn]

Hi,

Every sample works very well, but none match the image path and name!

<a href="image/test.gif"><img src="image/test.gif" /></a>

Bold anchor and src must be the same!

[Mwnciau]

In both our examples they do have to be exactly the same, try changing the src or href and the regex won't match.