Make clickable links using indices of associative array - php

Question

I have an associative array of links like this
$my_links = [
'city 1' => 'http://link1',
'city 2' => 'http://link2',
'Head Office' => 'http://link3'
];
and some html like this. The html is dynamically generated by a script ( wordpress blog content).
<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>
Required Output: Make clickable links using indices of above array
<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>
How to achieve this using PHP and/or JQuery?

Answer 1

<?php
$my_links = [
'city 1' => 'http://link1',
'city 2' => 'http://link2',
'Head Office' => 'http://link3'
];
$str = "<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>";
foreach ($my_links as $link_title => $link) {
$str = str_ireplace($link_title,"<a href='$link'>".ucwords($link_title)."</a>",$str);
}
echo $str;
Loop over your $my_links. Find the link title present in the string and use str_ireplace() to replace the link title with the anchor tags.

Answer 2

Just use the array references:
<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>

Answer 3

If your content is coming from PHP, use PHP's str_replace() function.
This function's three parameters search the purpose:
search: string or array
replace: string or array
actual string: string
If search and replace are arrays, their elements count should be same.
Now, find the string segments like City 1, City 2 and Head Office and replace them by adding <a href="... to them.
Code:
<?php
$my_links = [
'city 1' => 'http://link1',
'city 2' => 'http://link2',
'Head Office' => 'http://link3'
];
$content = '<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>';
$find = ['City 1', 'City 2', 'Head office'];
$replace = [
'City 1',
'City 2',
'Head Office',
];
echo str_replace($find, $replace, $content);
?>
A Quick Update:
Please use str_ireplace() instead of str_replace() discussed above as we have case insensitive comparison e.g. city 1 vs City 1. This function works the same way as str_replace(), only it is case insensitive.

Answer 4

You can try this
<p>
You can visit our stores at City 1
and City 2,
or visit our Head office.
</p>