[SOLVED] spaces in image names

[SchweppesAle]

if I had a very large string.  Is there a way of implementing preg_replace in order to correct spaces within image names? preg_replace("\ \","%20",$string); works but I'm trying to only target characters within the img -> src tag attribute.  thanks

[Ken2k7]

Why use preg_replace on that? Why not use it when that src URL was generated?

[SchweppesAle]

the string itself is being pulled from our database.  I need to modify it after the fact.  Was kind of hoping that there's an easy to accomplishing this.

[Ken2k7]

So you stored the image in the DB as - '<img src="..." alt="..." />' instead of just the src URL?

[SchweppesAle]

actually, there are sometimes multiple images. 

 

The database itself is part of a Joomla 1.5 CMS.  Usually, images are stored with the following format

 

<img align="left" width="209" src="../images/stories/intuit logo new for 2008.jpg" height="90" />

 

They're in there with the actual content though, so I'm not really sure how to get in there and modify only the required src = "" string

[nrg_alpha]

Since the request was for regex, I moved the thread to the regex board. Please note this board for future regex requests.

 

Database issues not withstanding, if going the regex route, is this something along the lines of what you are looking for?

 

$str = 'img align="left" width="209" src="../images/stories/intuit logo new for 2008.jpg" height="90" />';
if(preg_match_all('#src=[\'"][^\'"]+[\'"]#i', $str, $matches)){
foreach($matches[0] as $val){
	$str = str_replace($val, str_replace(' ',"%20",$val), $str);
}
}
echo $str; // ouputs: img align="left" width="209" src="../images/stories/intuit%20logo%20new%20for%202008.jpg" height="90" />

[SchweppesAle]

wow, thanks man.  that's exactly right.