What is the simplest way to change
<a href="link">title</a>
into
[url="link"]title[/url]
Thanks
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3 Answers
Offering improved version:
1) will consider both '" as argument enclosures
2) will work with multiple tags
3) allows for other params in the a tag and various spacing
<?php
$r = "<a href=\"test.html\" arg2=\"foo\" bar3=\"_something_else\">test</a>\n
<a href= \"test2.html\" >test2</a>\n
<a href = 'test3.html'>test3</a>\n
";
$r = preg_replace("/<a.*?href[^=]*=[^'\"]*['\"]([^'\"]+)['\"].*?>([^<]+)<\/a>/", "[url=\\1]\\2[/url]", $r);
echo $r;
output:
[url=test.html]test[/url]
[url=test2.html]test2[/url]
[url=test3.html]test3[/url]
7 Comments
sark9012
Would it be possible to remove a target="_blank" from the a tag when turning this into the output? That is my problem atm.
sark9012
Also, I know it's a completely different subject, but when I have <br /> in the html, how can I remove this and make it visually look like new line to the user?
jancha
above regex would already strip any other params try yourself ;) it will work
jancha
about <br /> -- convert to \n
sark9012
I don't really understand these expressions. It's [url=link], there are no " ". Can you make the alterations?
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You can try with
$result = preg_replace('/<a href="(.*)">(.*)<\/a>/', '[url="\1"]\2[/url]', $input);
