Hi so I need help in taking a block of html which contains existing shortcode for an old arbitrary system. Taking the code below and and using PHP change so the following :
[CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/)
would be transformed into this :
<a href="http://cdc.gov">CDC</a>
Any ideas on how i could achive this? There could be multiple instances in one block of code also. If anybody can help , I'd be grateful - thank you!!
The solution using preg_replace function with specific regex pattern:
$block = "Two excellent websites outlining the major precautions are: [some text](www.cdc.gov) and [who's next](www.who.int) which are the official sites ...";
$block = preg_replace("/\[([^]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/", '<a href="$2">$1</a>', $block);
print_r($block);
The output(from source code):
Two excellent websites outlining the major precautions are: <a href="www.cdc.gov">some text</a> and <a href="www.who.int">who's next</a> which are the official sites ...
This should Work:
PHP:
<?php
$re = '/(?<=\[)[^]]+(?=\])|(?<=\()[^]]+(?=\))/m';
$str = '[CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/)';
preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches);
// Print the entire match result
//print_r($matches); //Print result
$url = $matches[0][1]; //http://www.cdc.gov/
$text_url = $matches[0][0]; //CDC
echo "<a href=".$url.">$text_url</a>"
?>
Result:
<a href=http://www.cdc.gov/>CDC</a>
Enjoy.