Question

I have a pretty complex but well-formatted HTML string with lots of links in it. Part of my task is to convert all anchors into bold having the word “XX1”. Is this possible to do in PHP without using jQuery/js?

Answer 1

You can use preg_replace for this, try:

preg_replace('/(<a.*>.*XX1.*<\/a>)/imU', '<b>${1}</b>', $html);

Didn’t test the pattern, should work though.