Question

I have some line of statements in my database.Whenever I create an article and add any line of these statements in this article manually then I have to find these lines and make them link.
problem is that I am using ckeditor for article posting and user can add style to text also. So I have to maintain style of matched line and also make that link.

statements (saved in a table):

1: this is first line
2: this is second line
3: this is third line

Article to be created :

this is my article , this is <span style="color:red">first</span> line. rest of article.

Now when user add this article then (1) line should be matched and in article it should be appear as :

<a href="dfa">this is <span style=".">first</span> line</a>

Hope I stated my problem clearly.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Pattern for this is :

$pattern = "/(<?.*>)?this(<\/?.*>)? (<?.*>)?is(<\/?.*>)? (<?.*>)?first(<\/?.*>)? (<?.*>)?line(<\/?.*>)?;

preg_match_all($pattern,$str,$matches);
$replacement="<a href='#'>".$matches[0][0]."</a>";
$str = preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,$str,-1);