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@NogDogApr 27.2020 — #Maybe (untested):
The idea is to only modify it if it's between the end of a HTML tag and the start of another tag.@NogDogApr 29.2020 — #
I think we need a clearer explanation? That doesn't makes sense to me (sounds like you are saying you want to replace "oil" with "oil").@NogDogApr 29.2020 — #"." is a special character in regular expressions that means "any character", so you would need to escape it with a back-slash in that case:
But that's getting really messy (and no guarantee I didn't screw something up there). That would get rid of the "strong" tag in this case and just have the word "home" by itself -- I hope.
PHP str_replace for only text, not url or links
Hi I’m using this code to replace all the words “Oil” on my blog pages with the words “Olive”
`function replace_text($text) {
$text = str_replace(‘oil’, ‘olive’, $text);
return $text;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘replace_text’);
The problem is that internal links containing the word “Oil” are also replaced, generating invalid links, 404. I would need a function that recognizes the links, and replaces only the text, not the links. The code posted works well. Except that if I have a link inside the page like
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@NogDogApr 27.2020 — #Maybe (untested):<i>
</i>$text = preg_replace('/(>[^<]*)boilb([^<]*<)/', "$1olive$2, $text);
The idea is to only modify it if it's between the end of a HTML tag and the start of another tag.
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@NogDogApr 29.2020 — #>@mira2000#1617936 instead of "oil", you want to put "oil"?
I think we need a clearer explanation? That doesn't makes sense to me (sounds like you are saying you want to replace "oil" with "oil").
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@NogDogApr 29.2020 — #"." is a special character in regular expressions that means "any character", so you would need to escape it with a back-slash in that case: /(>[^<]*)bolive.oilb([^<]*<)/0
@NogDogApr 30.2020 — #That makes things trickier. You can explicitly look for it and replace it, I suppose:``<i>
</i>preg_replace('/(>[^<]*)breds<strong>houseb.*</strong>([^<]*<)/', "$1home$2, $text)<i>
</i>``But that's getting really messy (and no guarantee I didn't screw something up there). That would get rid of the "strong" tag in this case and just have the word "home" by itself -- I hope.