Regex is a bit over my head, but I'm trying to learn.
I have a working regex I'm using in preg_replace to match a string and replace it with an html link. It correctly avoids when matches are inside anchor tags, unless there is a child tag also in the anchor tag.
Here's the (updated) pattern:
/(?!(?:[^<]+>|[^>]+<\/a>))\b(Match Me)\b/is
And some sample text:
<a href="#">Don't Match Me <span>web</span></a>
<a href="#">Don't Match Me</a>
Match Me
<span>Match Me</span>
The above regex will match the text on the 1st, 3rd and 4th lines. However, I only want to match the text "Match Me" on the 3rd & 4th lines.
NOTE: The content I'm sifting through isn't neatly separated by lines as in my example. It's a paragraph of text in fact.
I'm open to using DOM, but I'm taking a big block of content and applying multiple replacements using preg_replace's array feature, like so:
preg_replace($searchFor, $linkArray, $content);
where $searchFor and $linkArray are both multidimensional arrays with corresponding keys holding the pattern and replacement html respectively.
Any help is appreciated!
