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2dragons · Novice Joined: Feb 17 2004 Posts: 95 Offline

I finally had to ask here because I cannot get this to work.

I have something like such:

<?php

$text = '<a href="http://www.somelink.com">';

$text = preg_replace( "<a href=\"(.*?)\">", "\1", $text );

echo $text;
?>

And I'm hoping to get the actual link ie:

http://www.somelink.com

I've never touched regex before, and I've tried numerous patterns:

'/\<a href=\"(.*?)\"\>/'
'/\<a href="(.*?)"\>/'
'\<a href=\"(.*?)\"\>'
'/<a href=\"(.*?)\">/'

But I cannot get anything to work, ideas?

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 10:35 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Regex Coach is a very good tool for learning and practicing regex expressions. As for preg_replace, the manual tells you a good chunk about that.

As to your problem, this worked for me:

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<?php

$text = '<a href="http://www.somelink.com">';

$text = preg_replace( "/<a href=\"(.*?)\">/i", "$1", $text );

echo $text;
?>

2dragons · Novice Joined: Feb 17 2004 Posts: 95 Offline

Thanks for the reply, I've been use Regex Coach for awhile, it definently helps.

But did you actually try that within php?

It does not work for me, and I had attempted that before.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:04 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Worked fine for me when tried it out. The server I tried it on is running PHP/4.3.10.

Cerium · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:25 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

If all youre trying to do is remove the anchor and replace it with the actual URL, this will work fine:

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<?php
$strHTML = "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>My site pwns you</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY>This is a link to my site, omg you should click it! <A Target=\"_top\" Href=\"http://www.x2productions.net\" OnMouseOver=\"javascript:SomeFunction()\">MY SITE! CLICK HERE! OMG!</A></BODY></HTML>";
$strHTML = preg_replace("|<A [^>]*HREF=\"(.*?)\"[^>]*>.*?</A>|i", "$1", $strHTML);

print $strHTML;
?>

Also, the regex allows for any number of properties for the anchor instead of just 'A HREF'.

Tested with php 5, with no problems.

Also, it looks like your backreference was wrong... I believe preg_replace wants a double backslash when using that notation:

2dragons · Novice Joined: Feb 17 2004 Posts: 95 Offline

Well I did give yours a shot Cerium and it does work, however I now believe my problem lies within the actual bit of text I'm trying to use it on.

<font title="verdana"><a href="http://www.host.com/abc3.cfm?abc3id=180&distID=78&abc3src=link">
<img align="center" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px;" src="http://www.host.com/abc3/servlet/Download?filename=/medialocker/180/coverart/Album-75.jpg" border="0" ALT="Battleground by Colorado Symphony Orchestra" width="75" height="75">
<br /><br />Battleground by Colorado Symphony Orchestra</a></font>

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:20 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Playing around in Regex Coach, if you have it all be on a single line (the s flag), it works fine. Try that in php real quick. Else, /<A [^>]*HREF=\"(.*?)\"[^>]*>/i works fine.

Chambahs · Guest Offline

hey 2dragons, when are ya gonna be done with the SSI biller? (bump)