Question

Array {
    [0] => http://abc.com/video/ghgh23;
    [1] => http://smtech.com/file/mwerq2;
}

I want to replace the content between /sometext/ from the above array. Like I want to replace video, file with abc.

Answer 1

You don’t need to loop over every element of the array, str_replace can take an array to replace with:

$myArray = str_replace(array('/video/', '/file/'), '/abc/', $myArray);

However, based on your question, you might want to replace the first path segment, and not a specific index. So to do that:

$myArray = preg_replace('((?<!/)/([^/]+)/)', '/abc/', $myArray);

That will replace the first path element of every URL in $myArray with /abc/…