shorten the text/url between <a> tag

[scvinodkumar]

Hi i have a content which comes from database.

 

For example,

<a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup/">http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup</a>
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http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup

 

I want to replace the link

 

<a href="link">text</a> as <a href="link">View link</a> and link as <a href="link">View link</a>

 

For example,

suppose, if the link come with a tag
<a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup">http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup</a> 
as <a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup">View link</a> 

if the link comes without a tag                                
and http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup as <a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup">View link</a>

 

I am using the below code currently,

 

$text = preg_replace("/(https?://[^ ) !]+)/eim", "'<a href="\1" title="\1">view link</a>'", stripslashes($fetch->body));
if(strlen(strip_tags($text,'<a></a>'))>200)
   $description = substr(strip_tags($text,'<a></a>'),0,200).'  <a href="link">more...</a>';
else
     $description = strip_tags($text,'<a></a>');

 

How to do this using preg_replace?

 

Please help me

 

[trq]

Your going to need to give us a clearer description than that I'm afraid.

[scvinodkumar]

for better understading replacing link as text.

 

sorry for my bad english

 

[Adam]

preg_replace('#<a[^>]*>(.*?)</a>#', "$1", $str);

 

Edit: I'd only read your last post, but I'm not sure that's exactly what you're after? Basically just leaves the text from a link and removes the rest.

[scvinodkumar]

I think i have not explained clearly.

 

As u see the content, it has some long links, for example,

 

<a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup">http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup</a> 

 

i want to display this link as View link in a short manner.

 

and also there will be link like this

 

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/08/01/report-nissan-qazana-and-nuvu-could-join-ev-lineup

 

i also want to display this link "view link".

 

I hope you understand my needs now

 

 

 

 

 

[Adam]

Do you want to apply this to all links, or just certain ones (e.g. links that exceed a certain length)?

[scvinodkumar]

Can i have for both, ie when links exceed limit and for all the links.

 

because in some situations i need to apply for all links and in some situation i need to apply when the limit exceed

 

[Adam]

To replace all:

 

preg_replace('#(<a[^>]*>)[^<]*(</a>)#', "$1View Link$2", $str);

 

To replace links exceeding 20 characters (in the example):

 

if (preg_match_all('#(<a[^>]*>)(.*?)(</a>)#', $str, $matches))
{
    foreach ($matches[2] as $key => $match)
    {
        if (strlen($match) > 20)
        {
            $str = str_replace($matches[1][$key] . $matches[2][$key] . $matches[3][$key], $matches[1][$key] . 'View Link' . $matches[3][$key], $str);
        }
    }
}

 

Uhh, it's pretty ugly, but works.

[scvinodkumar]

Great!!! Its working.

 

If u don't mind could you please tell me for this example,

 

http://google.com <br> http://www.google.com <br> www.google.com <br>
<a href='http://google.com'>http://google.com</a>

 

replace all links to 'view link'

 

 

 

 

[Adam]

Apply this before either of the other two:

 

$str = preg_replace('#(?<![">])\b(??:https?|ftp|file)://|www\.|ftp\.)[-A-Z0-9+&@\#/%=~_|$?!:,.]*[A-Z0-9+&@\#/%=~_|$]#', '<a href="\0">\0</a>', $str);

 

Weren't going to write my own version of matching URLs so borrowed this.

[scvinodkumar]

Many many thanks Adam to solve this issue