Modifying a hyperlink with ereg_replace

amirw

I'm looking for a simple way to convert multiple hyperlinks so they will open in a new window.

AFTER:
<a href="http://www.cnn.com" target="_new">

These links are located in a large text variable and I don't have access to every link separately, so I need to use a regular expression to modify all of them using one command (ereg_replace).

Thanks for your help.

luxluxlux

Try this:

<?php

$html = preg_replace (
    '/<a ([^>]+)>/ig',
    '<a \1 target="_blank">',
    $html
);

?>

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Lux

amirw

It works!

Although I had to remove the 'g' from the regex because it didn't recognize it:

$html = preg_replace (
'/<a ([^>]+)>/i',
'<a \1 target="_blank">',
$html
);

Thanks Lux.

I have another problem that I need to convert every "\n" to " " only if there is no before it:

e.g

"\n" => "\n" (no change)
"\n" => " "

I can convert the whole string to something else like "{}", then convert all "\n" and then convert the "{}" back to its original form, but I'm looking for a simpler way that uses a single command.

Is there any way of doing this?