Question

I have a bunch of HTML that is generated by a daemon using C, XML and XSL. Then I have a PHP script which picks up the HTML markup and displays it on the screen

I have a huge swathe of XHTML 1 compliant markup. I need to modify all of the links in the markup to remove &utm_source=report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=report.

So far I’ve considered two options.

1. Do a regex search in the PHP backend which trims out the Analytics code
2. Write some Jquery to loop through the links and then trim out the Analytics code from the href.

Hurdles:

1. The HTML can be HUGE. I.E. more than 4MB (ran some tests, they average at about 100Kb)
2. It has to be fast.We get approximately 3K
   Thoughts?

Right now I’m trying to use str_replace('&utm_source=report&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=report','',$html); but it’s not working.

Answer 1

I eventually deferred to using str_replace and replacing the string through the entire contents of the document :(.