I am facing a problem that I can't get my head around. I thought I would turn to the experts once again to shine some light.
I have a HTML template and within the template I have delimiters like:
[has_image]<p>The image is <img src="" /></p>[/has_image]
These delimiters may have multiple occurances within the template and below is what I am trying to achieve:
Find all occurances of these delimiters and replace the content between these delimiters with an image source or replace it empty if image doesn't exist but still keep the value/content of the remaining template.
Below is my code that works only for one occurance but struggling to accomplish it for multiple occurances.
function replace_text_template($template_body, $start_tag, $end_tag, $replacement = ''){
$occurances = substr_count($template_body, $start_tag);
$x = 1;
while($x <= $occurances) {
$start = strpos($template_body, $start_tag);
$stop = strpos($template_body, $end_tag);
$template_body = substr($template_body, 0, $start) . $start_tag . $replacement . substr($template_body, $stop);
$x++;
}
return $template_body;
}
$template_body will have HTML code with delimiters
replace_text_template($template_body, "[has_image]", "[/has_image]");
Whether I remove the while loop it still works for a single delimiter.
I have managed to solve the problem. If anybody finds this useful please feel free to use the code. However, if anyone finds a better way please do share it.
function replace_text_template($template_body, $start_tag, $end_tag, $replacement = ''){
$occurances = substr_count($template_body, $start_tag);
$x = 1;
while($x <= $occurances) {
$start = strpos($template_body, $start_tag);
$stop = strpos($template_body, $end_tag);
$template_body = substr($template_body, 0, $start) . $start_tag . $replacement . substr($template_body, $stop);
$template_body = str_replace($start_tag.''.$end_tag, '', $template_body); // replace the tags so on next loop the position will be correct
$x++;
}
return $template_body;
}
function replace_text_template($template_body, $start_tag, $replacement = '') {
return preg_replace_callback("~\[".preg_quote($start_tag)."\].*?\[\/".preg_quote($start_tag)."\]~i", function ($matches) use ($replacement) {
if(preg_match('~<img.*?src="([^"]+)"~i', $matches[0], $match)) {
if (is_array(getimagesize($match[1]))) return $match[1];
}
return $replacement;
}, $template_body);
}
$template_body = <<<EOL
text
[has_image]<p>The image is <img src="" /></p>[/has_image]
abc [has_image]<p>The image is <img src="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/themes/se-company/images/logo.png" /></p>[/has_image]xyz
EOL;
echo replace_text_template($template_body, "has_image", "replacement");
Returns:
text
replacement
abc http://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/themes/se-company/images/logo.pngxyz
Related
I have a search String: $str (Something like "test"), a wrap string: $wrap (Something like "|") and a text string: $text (Something like "This is a test Text").
$str is 1 Time in $text. What i want now is a function that will wrap $str with the wrap defined in $wrap and output the modified text (even if $str is more than one time in $text).
But it shall not output the whole text but just 1-2 of the words before $str and then 1-2 of the words after $str and "..." (Only if it isn`t the first or last word). Also it should be case insensitive.
Example:
$str = "Text"
$wrap = "<span>|</span>"
$text = "This is a really long Text where the word Text appears about 3 times Text"
Output would be:
"...long <span>Text</span> where...word <span>Text</span> appears...times <span>Text</span>"
My Code (Obviusly doesnt works):
$tempar = preg_split("/$str/i", $text);
if (count($tempar) <= 2) {
$result = "... ".substr($tempar[0], -7).$wrap.substr($tempar[1], 7)." ...";
} else {
$amount = substr_count($text, $str);
for ($i = 0; $i < $amount; $i++) {
$result = $result.".. ".substr($tempar[$i], -7).$wrap.substr($tempar[$i+1], 0, 7)." ..";
}
}
If you have a tipp or a solution dont hesitate to let me know.
I have taken your approach and made it more flexible. If $str or $wrap changes you could have escaping issues within the regex pattern so I have used preg_quote.
Note that I added $placeholder to make it clearer, but you can use $placeholder = "|" if you don't like [placeholder].
function wrapInString($str, $text, $element = 'span') {
$placeholder = "[placeholder]"; // The string that will be replaced by $str
$wrap = "<{$element}>{$placeholder}</{$element}>"; // Dynamic string that can handle more than just span
$strExp = preg_quote($str, '/');
$matches = [];
$matchCount = preg_match_all("/(\w+\s+)?(\w+\s+)?({$strExp})(\s+\w+)?(\s+\w+)?/i", $text, $matches);
$response = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $matchCount; $i++) {
if (strlen($matches[1][$i])) {
$response .= '...';
}
if (strlen($matches[2][$i])) {
$response .= $matches[2][$i];
}
$response .= str_replace($placeholder, $matches[3][$i], $wrap);
if (strlen($matches[4][$i])) {
$response .= $matches[4][$i];
}
if (strlen($matches[5][$i]) && $i == $matchCount - 1) {
$response .= '...';
}
}
return $response;
}
$text = "text This is a really long Text where the word Text appears about 3 times Text";
string(107) "<span>text</span> This...long <span>text</span> where...<span>text</span> appears...times <span>text</span>"
To make the replacement case insensitive you can use the i regex option.
If I understand your question correct, just a little bit of implode and explode magic needed
$text = "This is a really long Text where the word Text appears about 3 times Text";
$arr = explode("Text", $text);
print_r(implode('<span>Text</span>', $arr));
If you specifically need to render the span tags using HTML, just write it that way
$arr = explode("Text", $text);
print_r(implode('<span>Text</span>', $arr));
Use patern below to get your word and 1-2 words before and after
/((\w+\s+){1,2}|^)text((\s+\w+){1,2}|$)/i
demo
In PHP code it can be:
$str = "Text";
$wrap = "<span>|</span>";
$text = "This is a really long Text where the word Text appears about 3 times Text";
$temp = str_replace('|', $str, $wrap); // <span>Text</span>
// find patern and 1-2 words before and after
// (to make it casesensitive, delete 'i' from patern)
if(preg_match_all('/((\w+\s+){1,2}|^)text((\s+\w+){1,2}|$)/i', $text, $match)) {
$res = array_map(function($x) use($str, $temp) { return '... '.str_replace($str, $temp, $x) . ' ...';}, $match[0]);
echo implode(' ', $res);
}
i'm using this code to replace shortcodes in a CMS with links including images but it replaces only the first shortcode
$string = $row['Content'];
if(stristr($string,'[gal=')){
$startTag = "[gal=";
$endTag = "]";
$pos1 = strpos($string, $startTag) + strlen($startTag);
$pos2 = strpos($string, $endTag);
$gal = substr($string, $pos1, $pos2-$pos1);
$q=$db->prepare("select * from images where Gal_ID = :gal");
$q->execute(["gal"=>$gal]);
$imgs='';
while($r=$q->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
$images[] = $r['Image'];
}
foreach($images as $val){
$imgs .= "<a href='gallery/large/$val' class='fancybox-thumbs' rel='gallery'><img src='gallery/thumb/$val'></a>";
}
$result = substr_replace($string, $imgs, $pos1, $pos2-$pos1);
$result = str_replace($startTag,'',$result);
$result = str_replace($endTag,'',$result);
echo $result;
}
else{
echo $string;
}
string contains some paragraphs and 2 shortcodes
[gal=36] and [gal=37]
the result is replacing only the first shortcode with links and images but the second shortcode is displayed like this: "37" just the number. So how to loop through all shortcodes to replace them with links not only the first shortcode
Here is a full example how I described above.
//get matches
if(preg_match_all('/\[gal=(\d+)\]/i', $string, $matches) > 0){
//query for all images. You could/should bind this, but since the expression
//matches only numbers, it is technically not possible to inject anything.
//However best practices are going to be "always bind".
$q=$db->prepare("select Gal_ID, Image from images where Gal_ID in (".implode(',', $matches[1]).")");
$q->execute();
//format the images into an array
$images = array();
while($r=$q->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
$images[$r['Gal_ID']][] = "<a href='gallery/large/{$r['Image']}' class='fancybox-thumbs' rel='gallery'><img src='gallery/thumb/{$r['Image']}'></a>";
}
//replace shortcode with images
$result = preg_replace_callback('/\[gal=(\d+)\]/i', function($match) use ($images){
if(isset($images[$match[1]])){
return implode('', $images[$match[1]]);
} else {
return $match[0];
}
}, $string);
echo $result;
}
I tested it as much as I could, but I don't have PDO and/or your tables. This should work as a pretty much drop in replacement for what you have above.
I have a markdown text content which I have to replace without using library functions.So I used preg replace for this.It works fine for some cases.For cases like heading
for eg Heading
=======
should be converted to <h1>Heading</h1> and also
##Sub heading should be converted to <h2>Sub heading</h2>
###Sub heading should be converted to <h3>Sub heading</h3>
I have tried
$text = preg_replace('/##(.+?)\n/s', '<h2>$1</h2>', $text);
The above code works but I need to have count of hash symbol and based on that I have to assign heading tags.
Anyone help me please....
Try using preg_replace_callback.
Something like this -
$regex = '/(#+)(.+?)\n/s';
$line = "##Sub heading\n ###sub-sub heading\n";
$line = preg_replace_callback(
$regex,
function($matches){
$h_num = strlen($matches[1]);
return "<h$h_num>".$matches[2]."</h$h_num>";
},
$line
);
echo $line;
The output would be something like this -
<h2>Sub heading</h2> <h3>sub-sub heading</h3>
EDIT
For the combined problem of using = for headings and # for sub-headings, the regex gets a bit more complicated, but the principle remains the same using preg_replace_callback.
Try this -
$regex = '/(?:(#+)(.+?)\n)|(?:(.+?)\n\s*=+\s*\n)/';
$line = "Heading\n=======\n##Sub heading\n ###sub-sub heading\n";
$line = preg_replace_callback(
$regex,
function($matches){
//var_dump($matches);
if($matches[1] == ""){
return "<h1>".$matches[3]."</h1>";
}else{
$h_num = strlen($matches[1]);
return "<h$h_num>".$matches[2]."</h$h_num>";
}
},
$line
);
echo $line;
Whose Output is -
<h1>Heading</h1><h2>Sub heading</h2> <h3>sub-sub heading</h3>
Do a preg_match_all like this:
$string = "#####asdsadsad";
preg_match_all("/^#/", $string, $matches);
var_dump ($matches);
And based on count of matches you can do whatever you want.
Or, use the preg_replace_callback function.
$input = "#This is my text";
$pattern = '/^(#+)(.+)/';
$mytext = preg_replace_callback($pattern, 'parseHashes', $input);
var_dump($mytext);
function parseHashes($input) {
var_dump($input);
$matches = array();
preg_match_all('/(#)/', $input[1], $matches);
var_dump($matches[0]);
var_dump(count($matches[0]));
$cnt = count($matches[0]);
if ($cnt <= 6 && $cnt > 0) {
return '<h' . $cnt . ' class="if you want class here">' . $input[2] . '</h' . $cnt . '>';
} else {
//This is not a valid h tag. Do whatever you want.
return false;
}
}
Basically I want to turn a string like this:
<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>
into this:
<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>
How can I do it?
The use case (bc some people were curious):
A page like this with a list of allowed HTML tags and examples. For example, <code> is a allowed tag, and this would be the sample:
<code><?php echo "Hello World!"; ?></code>
I wanted a reverse function because there are many such tags with samples that I store them all into a array which I iterate in one loop, instead of handling each one individually...
My version using regular expressions:
$string = '<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>';
$new_string = preg_replace(
'/(.*?)(<.*?>|$)/se',
'html_entity_decode("$1").htmlentities("$2")',
$string
);
It tries to match every tag and textnode and then apply htmlentities and html_entity_decode respectively.
There isn't an existing function, but have a look at this.
So far I've only tested it on your example, but this function should work on all htmlentities
function html_entity_invert($string) {
$matches = $store = array();
preg_match_all('/(&(#?\w){2,6};)/', $string, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
foreach ($matches as $i => $match) {
$key = '__STORED_ENTITY_' . $i . '__';
$store[$key] = html_entity_decode($match[0]);
$string = str_replace($match[0], $key, $string);
}
return str_replace(array_keys($store), $store, htmlentities($string));
}
Update:
Thanks to #Mike for taking the time to test my function with other strings. I've updated my regex from /(\&(.+)\;)/ to /(\&([^\&\;]+)\;)/ which should take care of the issue he raised.
I've also added {2,6} to limit the length of each match to reduce the possibility of false positives.
Changed regex from /(\&([^\&\;]+){2,6}\;)/ to /(&([^&;]+){2,6};)/ to remove unnecessary excaping.
Whooa, brainwave! Changed the regex from /(&([^&;]+){2,6};)/ to /(&(#?\w){2,6};)/ to reduce probability of false positives even further!
Replacing alone will not be good enough for you. Whether it be regular expressions or simple string replacing, because if you replace the < > signs then the < and > signs or vice versa you will end up with one encoding/decoding (all < and > or all < and > signs).
So if you want to do this, you will have to parse out one set (I chose to replace with a place holder) do a replace then put them back in and do another replace.
$str = "<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>";
$search = array("<",">",);
//place holder for < and >
$replace = array("[","]");
//first replace to sub out < and > for [ and ] respectively
$str = str_replace($search, $replace, $str);
//second replace to get rid of original < and >
$search = array("<",">");
$replace = array("<",">",);
$str = str_replace($search, $replace, $str);
//third replace to turn [ and ] into < and >
$search = array("[","]");
$replace = array("<",">");
$str = str_replace($search, $replace, $str);
echo $str;
I think i have a small sollution, why not break html tags into an array and then compare and change if needed?
function invertHTML($str) {
$res = array();
for ($i=0, $j=0; $i < strlen($str); $i++) {
if ($str{$i} == "<") {
if (isset($res[$j]) && strlen($res[$j]) > 0){
$j++;
$res[$j] = '';
} else {
$res[$j] = '';
}
$pos = strpos($str, ">", $i);
$res[$j] .= substr($str, $i, $pos - $i+1);
$i += ($pos - $i);
$j++;
$res[$j] = '';
continue;
}
$res[$j] .= $str{$i};
}
$newString = '';
foreach($res as $html){
$change = html_entity_decode($html);
if($change != $html){
$newString .= $change;
} else {
$newString .= htmlentities($html);
}
}
return $newString;
}
Modified .... with no errors.
So, although other people on here have recommended regular expressions, which may be the absolute right way to go ... I wanted to post this, as it is sufficient for the question you asked.
Assuming that you are always using html'esque code:
$str = '<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>';
xml_parse_into_struct(xml_parser_create(), $str, $nodes);
$xmlArr = array();
foreach($nodes as $node) {
echo htmlentities('<' . $node['tag'] . '>') . html_entity_decode($node['value']) . htmlentities('</' . $node['tag'] . '>');
}
Gives me the following output:
<CODE> <div> blabla </div> </CODE>
Fairly certain that this wouldn't support going backwards again .. as other solutions posted, would, in the sense of:
$orig = '<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>';
$modified = '<CODE> <div> blabla </div> </CODE>';
$modifiedAgain = '<code> <div> blabla </div> </code>';
I'd recommend using a regular expression, e.g. preg_replace():
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/regular_expressions.php
http://davebrooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/php-preg_replace-some-useful-regular-expressions/
Edit: It appears that I haven't fully answered your question. There is no built-in PHP function to do what you want, but you can do find and replace with regular expressions or even simple expressions: str_replace, preg_replace
Im working on a commenting web application and i want to parse user mentions (#user) as links. Here is what I have so far:
$text = "#user is not #user1 but #user3 is #user4";
$pattern = "/\#(\w+)/";
preg_match_all($pattern,$text,$matches);
if($matches){
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE username IN ('" .implode("','",$matches[1]). "')
ORDER BY LENGTH(username) DESC";
$users = $this->getQuery($sql);
foreach($users as $i=>$u){
$text = str_replace("#{$u['username']}",
"<a href='#' class='ct-userLink' rel='{$u['user_id']}'>#{$u['username']}</a> ", $text);
}
$echo $text;
}
The problem is that user links are being overlapped:
<a rel="11327" class="ct-userLink" href="#">
<a rel="21327" class="ct-userLink" href="#">#user</a>1
</a>
How can I avoid links overlapping?
Answer Update
Thanks to the answer picked, this is how my new foreach loop looks like:
foreach($users as $i=>$u){
$text = preg_replace("/#".$u['username']."\b/",
"<a href='#' title='{$u['user_id']}'>#{$u['username']}</a> ", $text);
}
Problem seems to be that some usernames can encompass other usernames. So you replace user1 properly with <a>user1</a>. Then, user matches and replaces with <a><a>user</a>1</a>. My suggestion is to change your string replace to a regex with a word boundary, \b, that is required after the username.
The Twitter widget has JavaScript code to do this. I ported it to PHP in my WordPress plugin. Here's the relevant part:
function format_tweet($tweet) {
// add #reply links
$tweet_text = preg_replace("/\B[#＠]([a-zA-Z0-9_]{1,20})/",
"#<a class='atreply' href='http://twitter.com/$1'>$1</a>",
$tweet);
// make other links clickable
$matches = array();
$link_info = preg_match_all("/\b(((https*\:\/\/)|www\.)[^\"\']+?)(([!?,.\)]+)?(\s|$))/",
$tweet_text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
if ($link_info) {
foreach ($matches as $match) {
$http = preg_match("/w/", $match[2]) ? 'http://' : '';
$tweet_text = str_replace($match[0],
"<a href='" . $http . $match[1] . "'>" . $match[1] . "</a>" . $match[4],
$tweet_text);
}
}
return $tweet_text;
}
instead of parsing for '#user' parse for '#user ' (with space in the end) or ' #user ' to even avoid wrong parsing of email addresses (eg: mailaddress#user.com) maybe ' #user: ' should also be allowed. this will only work, if usernames have no whitespaces...
You can go for a custom str replace function which stops at first replace.. Something like ...
function str_replace_once($needle , $replace , $haystack){
$pos = strpos($haystack, $needle);
if ($pos === false) {
// Nothing found
return $haystack;
}
return substr_replace($haystack, $replace, $pos, strlen($needle));
}
And use it like:
foreach($users as $i=>$u){
$text = str_replace_once("#{$u['username']}",
"<a href='#' class='ct-userLink' rel='{$u['user_id']}'>#{$u['username']}</a> ", $text);
}
You shouldn’t replace one certain user mention at a time but all at once. You could use preg_split to do that:
// split text at mention while retaining user name
$parts = preg_split("/#(\w+)/", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
$n = count($parts);
// $n is always an odd number; 1 means no match found
if ($n > 1) {
// collect user names
$users = array();
for ($i=1; $i<$n; $i+=2) {
$users[$parts[$i]] = '';
}
// get corresponding user information
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE username IN ('" .implode("','", array_keys($users)). "')";
$users = array();
foreach ($this->getQuery($sql) as $user) {
$users[$user['username']] = $user;
}
// replace mentions
for ($i=1; $i<$n; $i+=2) {
$u = $users[$parts[$i]];
$parts[$i] = "<a href='#' class='ct-userLink' rel='{$u['user_id']}'>#{$u['username']}</a>";
}
// put everything back together
$text = implode('', $parts);
}
I like dnl solution of parsing ' #user', but maybe is not suitable for you.
Anyway, did you try to use strip_tags function to remove the anchor tags? That way you have the string without the links, and you can parse it building the links again.
strip_tags