PHP String Replace between two html tags

Question

I am trying to replace text between two tags in a html document. I want to replace any text that isn't enclosed with a < and >. I want to use str_replace to do this.

php $string = '<html><h1> some text i want to replace</h1><p>some stuff i want to replace </p>';

$text_to_echo = str_replace("Bla","Da",$String);
echo $text_to_echo;

html is best handled by parsing it as XML. Some things can be achieved with regular expressions, but str_replace is not suitable for the task at all. — Maxim Krizhanovsky
– Maxim Krizhanovsky, Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 18:57
Obligatory link to "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags" thread: stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/… — Steve
– Steve, Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 19:01
I would suggest you read this SO question stackoverflow.com/questions/8687778/… — ggdx
– ggdx, Commented Nov 13, 2013 at 19:01

Alexander · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 19:16:21Z

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Try this:

    <?php

$string = '<html><h1> some text i want to replace</h1><p>
    some stuff i want to replace </p>';
$text_to_echo =  preg_replace_callback(
    "/(<([^.]+)>)([^<]+)(<\\/\\2>)/s", 
    function($matches){
        /*
         * Indexes of array:
         *    0 - full tag
         *    1 - open tag, for example <h1>
         *    2 - tag name h1
         *    3 - content
         *    4 - closing tag
         */
        // print_r($matches);
        $text = str_replace(
           array("text", "want"), 
           array('TEXT', 'need'),
                $matches[3]
        );
        return $matches[1].$text.$matches[4];
    }, 
    $string
);
echo $text_to_echo;

edited Nov 13, 2013 at 19:16

answered Nov 13, 2013 at 18:59

Alexander

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3 Comments

PHP9274745382389 Over a year ago

Thanks, would there be a way to do this word by word. For example replace "text" with "hello" and "want" with "cake"

PHP9274745382389 Over a year ago

Hi. Would there be a easy way to implement MySQL with this as i want to fetch the arrays from a DB instead of having to manually insert them.

Alexander Over a year ago

Hi, if you have in plan further to use these data, which were inserted in mysql, instead of replacing, then worth doing this one time.

Aditya Vikas Devarapalli · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-13 18:57:24Z

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str_replace() can not handle this

You will need regex or preg_replace for that

answered Nov 13, 2013 at 18:57

Aditya Vikas Devarapalli

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