I don't know if I get your question completely right, if you want to deal with all text-sequences enclosed in src=" and ", the following pattern could make it:
~(\ssrc=")([^"]+)(")~
It has three capturing groups of which the second one contains the data you're interested in. The first and last are useful to change the whole match.
Now you can replace all instances with a callback function that is changing the places. I've created a simple string with all the 6 cases you've got:
$site = <<<BUFFER
1. src="//www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"
2. src="http://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"
3. src="https://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"
4. src="somedirectory/cat.png"
5. src="/cat.png"
6. src="cat.png"
BUFFER;
Let's ignore for a moment that there are no surrounding HTML tags, you're not parsing HTML anyway I'm sure as you haven't asked for a HTML parser but for a regular expression. In the following example, the match in the middle (the URL) will be enclosed so that it's clear it matched:
So now to replace each of the links let's start lightly by just highlighting them in the string.
$pattern = '~(\ssrc=")([^"]+)(")~';
echo preg_replace_callback($pattern, function ($matches) {
return $matches[1] . ">>>" . $matches[2] . "<<<" . $matches[3];
}, $site);
The output for the example given then is:
1. src=">>>//www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
2. src=">>>http://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
3. src=">>>https://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
4. src=">>>somedirectory/cat.png<<<"
5. src=">>>/cat.png<<<"
6. src=">>>cat.png<<<"
As the way of replacing the string is to be changed, it can be extracted, so it is easier to change:
$callback = function($method) {
return function ($matches) use ($method) {
return $matches[1] . $method($matches[2]) . $matches[3];
};
};
This function creates the replace callback based on a method of replacing you pass as parameter.
Such a replacement function could be:
$highlight = function($string) {
return ">>>$string<<<";
};
And it's called like the following:
$pattern = '~(\ssrc=")([^"]+)(")~';
echo preg_replace_callback($pattern, $callback($highlight), $site);
The output remains the same, this was just to illustrate how the extraction worked:
1. src=">>>//www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
2. src=">>>http://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
3. src=">>>https://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png<<<"
4. src=">>>somedirectory/cat.png<<<"
5. src=">>>/cat.png<<<"
6. src=">>>cat.png<<<"
The benefit of this is that for the replacement function, you only need to deal with the URL match as single string, not with regular expression matches array for the different groups.
Now to your second half of your question: How to replace this with the specific URL handling like removing the filename. This can be done by parsing the URL itself and remove the filename (basename) from the path component. Thanks to the extraction, you can put this into a simple function:
$removeFilename = function ($url) {
$url = new Net_URL2($url);
$base = basename($path = $url->getPath());
$url->setPath(substr($path, 0, -strlen($base)));
return $url;
};
This code makes use of Pear's Net_URL2 URL component (also available via Packagist and Github, your OS packages might have it, too). It can parse and modify URLs easily, so is nice to have for the job.
So now the replacement done with the new URL filename replacement function:
$pattern = '~(\ssrc=")([^"]+)(")~';
echo preg_replace_callback($pattern, $callback($removeFilename), $site);
And the result then is:
1. src="//www.stackoverflow.com/"
2. src="http://www.stackoverflow.com/"
3. src="https://www.stackoverflow.com/"
4. src="somedirectory/"
5. src="/"
6. src=""
Please note that this is exemplary. It shows how you can to it with regular expressions. You can however to it as well with a HTML parser. Let's make this an actual HTML fragment:
1. <img src="//www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"/>
2. <img src="http://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"/>
3. <img src="https://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png"/>
4. <img src="somedirectory/cat.png"/>
5. <img src="/cat.png"/>
6. <img src="cat.png"/>
And then process all <img> "src" attributes with the created replacement filter function:
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$saved = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);
$doc->loadHTML($site, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
libxml_use_internal_errors($saved);
$srcs = (new DOMXPath($doc))->query('//img/@hsrc') ?: [];
foreach ($srcs as $src) {
$src->nodeValue = $removeFilename($src->nodeValue);
}
echo $doc->saveHTML();
The result then again is:
1. <img src="//www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png">
2. <img src="http://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png">
3. <img src="https://www.stackoverflow.com/cat.png">
4. <img src="somedirectory/cat.png">
5. <img src="/cat.png">
6. <img src="cat.png">
Just a different way of parsing has been used - the replacement still is the same. Just to offer two different ways that are also the same in part.
). It is a png and as I see it it can be placed on the page using 6 different urls:
