Regex in PHP for Extract and Reformatting

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I am working on a project with facebook instant article. I would like to do automatic conversion through PHP script but I have problem with reformatting this code

[caption id="attachment_15737" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]<img class="wp-image-15737 size-full" title="bathroom counter decor" src="https://roohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ivote.jpg" alt="bathroom counter decor" width="1024" height="768" /> © ivote[/caption]

into this code

<figure><img class="wp-image-15737 size-full" title="bathroom counter decor" src="https://roohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ivote.jpg" alt="bathroom counter decor" width="1024" height="768" /><figcaption>© ivote</figcaption></figure>

Can anyone help me out with this problem? I would really appreciate any help. Thank you.

@Adriano I have but I am not expert at Regex. I can only get <img> from the code. — Drake Boein
– Drake Boein, Commented Dec 11, 2017 at 2:10

Tim Biegeleisen · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-11 02:17:18Z

You should probably consider using some sort of formal parser to handle this problem in the general case. That being said, if you are willing to accept the risks with just using a single regex, then consider matching with the finding pattern, and replacing with the pattern after it:

/\[caption [^<]*(<img[^>]*>)\s*([^[]*)\[\/caption\]/
<figure>$1<figcaption>$2</figcaption></figure>

Here is the code:

$input = "[caption id=\"attachment_15737\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"]<img class=\"wp-image-15737 size-full\" title=\"bathroom counter decor\" src=\"https://roohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ivote.jpg\" alt=\"bathroom counter decor\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" /> © ivote[/caption]";
$after = preg_replace('/\[caption [^<]*(<img[^>]*>)\s*([^[]*)\[\/caption\]/', '<figure>$1<figcaption>$2</figcaption></figure>', $input);
echo $after;

This outputs the following HTML:

<figure><img class="wp-image-15737 size-full" title="bathroom counter decor"
             src="https://roohome.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ivote.jpg"
             alt="bathroom counter decor" width="1024" height="768" />
        <figcaption>© ivote</figcaption>
</figure>

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