[RESOLVED] help replacing string

kbc1

When content is saved into my database with links to files, such as:

<p>here is a load of text. blah blah blah. My link is <a href="/mydocuments/images">is here</a>. Blah blah.

I need to be able to replace the link string when the page is displayed and prefix it with a different domain name as such:

<p>here is a load of text. blah blah blah. My link is <a href="http://www.myotherdomain.com/mydocuments/images">is here</a>. Blah blah.

Can someone offer advise on how I can achieve this please?

Thanks

jib0

You can simple add

<base href="http://www.myotherdomain.com" />

inside the head element of your HTML file.

bogu

In your case I would have done something like this...

/* add [domain_name] string where the domain need to be added */
<p>here is a load of text. blah blah blah. My link is <a href="[domain_name]/mydocuments/images">is here</a>. Blah blah.

The using [man]str_replace[/man] witch should be pretty fast I would have added the domain ...

If you cant make that change you can try something like this ...

define('_New_Domain','http://mydomain.com');

$my_str	 = "<p>here is a load of text. blah blah blah. My link is <a href=\"/mydocuments/images\">is here</a>. Blah blah.";
$search	 = "/\< *[a][^\>]*[href] *= *[\"\']{0,1}([^\"\'\ >]*)/i";
$replace = "<a href=\""._New_Domain."$1";

echo preg_replace($search, $replace, $my_str);

kbc1

Thanks for the prompt responses.

bogu, your second explanation using the preg_replace method worked just fine.

kbc1

Actually bogu, the preg_replace you provided changes every <a href link to link to the new domain that is in the content.

how would it be changed so that is only prefixes links that begin with

<a href="/documents

and not others?