Question

I am trying to append all urls in a RSS feed with a extra string (like “/testing123” etc). The original url format from the RSS looks like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://website.com/item/name1/2162561"/>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://website.com/item/name2/2162435"/>

etc, I used regexp with str_replace in a for loop but i cannot seem to get it working correctly and if i use preg_replace i get errors. When i just echo out the urls with the string appended it appears how i want but when i use str_replace then the urls looks like this instead:

http://website.com/testing123/item/name1/2162561
http://website.com/testing123/item/name2/2162435

I need the urls with the append string at the end when they get replaced however like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://website.com/item/name1/2162561/testing123"/>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://website.com/item/name2/2162435/testing123"/>

The code i have is:

<?php 

// The append string
$append = '/testing123';

// The file
$file = "RSS.txt";

// Get the files contents
$contents = file_get_contents($file);

// The search pattern
$SearchPattern = '/href=["|\'](.[^"|\']+)/i';

// Run preg_match_all to grab all the Matches
preg_match_all( $SearchPattern, $contents, $Matches );

// Check to see if we have at least 1 match
$MatchCount = count($Matches[0]);

// If there is more than 1 match then run a for loop
if ( $MatchCount > 0 ) {
     for ( $i=0; $i < $MatchCount ; $i++ ) {

          $temp = $Matches[0][$i];
          echo $temp . $append . '<br />'; // Appears to work

          //$contents = str_replace($temp, $temp . $append, $contents); // But str_replace doesn't seem to work

          //preg_replace($temp, $temp . $append, $contents); // And using preg_replace gives a error

     };
};

echo $contents; // Display the contents

?>

Answer 1

This should work :

<?php 

// The append string
$append = '/testing123';

// The file
$file = "RSS.txt";

// Get the files contents
$contents = file_get_contents($file);

// The search pattern
$SearchPattern = '/(<link .* href=".*)("\/>)/i';

// Run preg_match_all to grab all the Matches
preg_match_all( $SearchPattern, $contents, $matches );

for($i=0;$i<count($matches[1]);$i++){
    echo $matches[1][$i].$append.$matches[2][$i]."\n";
}

?>

Basically, it filters the lines with regular expressions and extracts both sides of the index where you want to append text.

It then concatenates it all.