how to replace urls in a document (with regular expression)

[Curious Expatriate]

Hi-

I'm completely stumped. I'm trying to write some code that will parse
a file and rewrite it with all URLs replaced by something else.

For example: if the file looks like this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://www.cnn.com">click me</a>

... then the output should be this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://mysite?myurl=www.cnn.com">click
me</a>

Anyhelp on how to accomplish such thing would be really appreciated -
I spent hours on this and I'm completely stuck.

TIA,

JJ

[Andreas Paasch]

Curious Expatriate wrote:

Hi-

I'm completely stumped. I'm trying to write some code that will parse
a file and rewrite it with all URLs replaced by something else.

For example: if the file looks like this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://www.cnn.com">click me</a>

.. then the output should be this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://mysite?myurl=www.cnn.com">click
me</a>

If I'm not mistaken, it's a string added to a string.

//define the website url
$string="http://www.cnn.com"
// strip the text http:// (7 characters)
$urlvariable=substr($string,7)
//put it correctly together
"http://mysite?myurl=".$urlvariable

Should do what you want, right?

/Andreas

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[Andreas Paasch]

Andreas Paasch wrote:

Curious Expatriate wrote:

Hi-

I'm completely stumped. I'm trying to write some code that will parse
a file and rewrite it with all URLs replaced by something else.

For example: if the file looks like this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://www.cnn.com">click me</a>

.. then the output should be this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://mysite?myurl=www.cnn.com">click
me</a>

If I'm not mistaken, it's a string added to a string.

//define the website url
$string="http://www.cnn.com"
// strip the text http:// (7 characters)
$urlvariable=substr($string,7)
//put it correctly together
"http://mysite?myurl=".$urlvariable

Should do what you want, right?

/Andreas

Oops, doing this with regular expressions is not in my knowledge base,
sorry.

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[Justin Koivisto]

Curious Expatriate wrote:

Hi-

I'm completely stumped. I'm trying to write some code that will parse
a file and rewrite it with all URLs replaced by something else.

For example: if the file looks like this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://www.cnn.com">click me</a>

.. then the output should be this:

<b>click here</b><a href="http://mysite?myurl=www.cnn.com">click
me</a>

Anyhelp on how to accomplish such thing would be really appreciated -
I spent hours on this and I'm completely stuck.

TIA,

JJ

Try something like:
$x=preg_replace('/(http\:\/\/\S+)/i',"http://mysite?myurl=$1"",$x);

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