this should be easy but somehow I can't figure it out:
I have HTML snippet like this one:
<p style="padding:0 10 20 30; margin: 1 2 3 4 ">This is 201 some 20 text 1 <b>30</b> with some numbers 30 20</p> ...
I need to match numbers 1, 20, 30 (only those) and replace them with links. Obviously I do not want to replace numbers inside tag
The output should be:
<p style="padding:0 10 20 30; margin: 1 2 3 4 ">This is 201 some <a href="#20">20</a> text <a href="#1">1</a> <b><a href="#30">30</a></b> with some numbers <a href="#30">30</a> <a href="#20">20</a></p> ...
This is what I have:
$text = '<p style="padding:0 10 20 30; margin: 1 2 3 4 ">This is 201 some 20 text 1 <b>30</b> with some numbers 30 20</p> ...';
$pat[] = '/(?<=\>)([^<]*)([^0-9\:])(1|20|30)([^0-9])/s';
$repl[] = '$1$2<a href="#$3" class="p2">$3</a>$4';
echo preg_replace($pat, $repl, $text);
It works but it matches only one number at a time, and I do not want to run it in loop.
Any ideas?
--
I see the point of using HTML parser, however it seems like something that can be done with regexp. Especially when there is no standard library for parsing HTML in PHP, and I'm not sure if I want to import third party HTML parser just for this task. Any attempt to fix my regex?
-- I managed to write regexp that works in my case. If anyone is interested:
$pat[] = '/>(([^<]*)(([^0-9\:]))|())(1|20|30)(?(?=[<]+?)(?!<\/a>)|(([^0-9\<])([^<]*)<(?!\/a>)))/sU';
$repl[] = '>$1<a href="#$6" class="p22">$6</a>$7';
I know very well that it can be easily accomplished with HTML parser, but I do not want to include third party parsers in my software.
Regards, Philia
