can i use preg_replace to format URL's??

udendra

this time it's preg_replace i guess..:rolleyes:
just that I'm not sure how to do this.

I have a text source which contains links in the format:

<a href=index.php?i=5>click</a>
<a href=books.php?jk=count>click</a>
..........................

or maybe even with quotes,

<a href="index2.php?i=5">click</a>
<a href="index4.php?i=8">click</a>
.............................

i need to format all those links within the href attribute , so that they will have the full URL appended in the front.

ex:
<a href=http://www.mysite.com/index.php?i=5>click</a>

or for the links that had quotes,

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/books.php?i=5">click</a>

how do i do that?

thx.

laserlight

You need to make the modification statically or dynamically?

It looks like a static change, i.e. for some PHP files, then it would be better to keep it as it as, maybe changing to:
../index.php?i=5
This could easily be done in a text editor.

sidney

 $txt='<a href=index.php?i=5>click</a><br> 
<a href=books.php?jk=count>click</a><br>
 <a href="http://www.mysite.com/books.php?jk=count">click</a><br>
 <a href=http://www.mysite.com/books.php?jk=count>click</a><br>
.......................... <br>
<br>
or maybe even with quotes,<br> 
<br>
<a href="index2.php?i=5">click</a><br> 
<a href="index4.php?i=8">click</a><br> ';
$url="http://www.mysite.com/";
$t=array('<a href"','<a href=','<A HREF="',$url.'http://',$url.'"http://');
$r=array('<A HREF"','<a href='.$url,'<a href="'.$url,'http://','"http://');
$txt=str_replace($t,$r,$txt);
echo $txt;

udendra

yeah, my source is dynamic ... and Sid's method is the kind of thing i was somewhat looking for. so thankx for that.

ok ,😃 what i need done is get the URL part out of the href attribute .

ex :
books.php?jk=count
of
<a href=books.php?jk=count>

then I'll do a urlencode to that whole string and pass it to a variable , which would replace it like this :

where,
$link=urlencode('the string extracted from the href attribute');
[in this case 'books.php?jk=count']

this is the reason that tempts me to ask the question whether its possible with preg_replace or someother method??
🙁

any suggestions?