str_replace problem

[Harley1979]

Hi, got a problem here I can't for the life of me understand.

 

Basically I have a form to submit a piece of news and I want to search for all instances of a href and add to that a "rel" attribute.

 

Here is the code below

 

$item = trim($_REQUEST['elm1']);
$item = str_replace('<a href="http', '<a rel="external" href="http', $item);

 

Any ideas anyone why that wouldn't work?

 

Thanks

[F1Fan]

Have you tried str_ireplace?

[thebadbad]

Else make sure the href is the first attribute in the anchor tag (e.g. <a href=".. instead of <a id="foo" href="..), and that the URLs really start with "http".

[waynew]

if(!stristr($string,"http://")) echo "GTFO";

[redarrow]

WHAT U WANTED M8...........

 

<?php
$item=$_POST['item'];
$item ="<a href='http://www.google.com'>redrrow</a>";
$i = str_replace("<a href='http://" , "<a rel='external' href='http://", $item);

echo $i;
?>