str replace and re write

[shaneg55]

how can i find reference to  something like this "navigationID=3" or "navigationID=44" within a string and then re write it to become something like this "/en/content/3/Link_Name"?

 

there could be more than one reference within the string and the integer val (ie 3 and or 44) will not be known.

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[Vince889]

how can i find reference to  something like this "navigationID=3" or "navigationID=44" within a string and then re write it to become something like this "/en/content/3/Link_Name"?

 

there could be more than one reference within the string and the integer val (ie 3 and or 44) will not be known.

 

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Regex would help, but if you want to use str_replace, thats fine.

 

$string = "blahblah navigationID=44";

$replacement = "/en/content/3/Link_Name";

echo str_replace("navigationID=44",$replacement,$string);

 

Atleast I think thats what you want...

[shaneg55]

I was thinking something more along the lines of this:

 

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname, $lang) {
$db = new Database(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASS, DB_DATABASE);
$db->connect();
    $pattern = "/<$tagname ?.*>(.*)<\/$tagname>/";
    preg_match($pattern, $string, $matches);

$sql= "SELECT * FROM navigation, pages WHERE navigation.navigationID = '$matches[1]' AND navigation.pageID = pages.pageID";
$rows = $db->query($sql);
while ($record = $db->fetch_array($rows)) {
$newtext = "http://www.mydomain.com/".$lang."/".$record[navigationID]."/".str_replace(" ", "_", $record[linkname]);
}
return $newtext;
}
$str = '<p align="left">Go To This <a href="<navigation>3</navigation>">Page</a>.</p><p>This <a href="<navigation>4</navigation>">Page</a> is also good.</p>';
$txt = getTextBetweenTags($str, "navigation", "en");
echo $txt;

 

Which returns "http://mydomain.com/en/4/My_Link_Name"

 

I want it to return "Go To This Page. This Page is also good." With the words "Page" linked with the properly formatted url.

 

I think im missing incorporating an str_replace here somehow so i return the properly formatted urls and the rest of the string where applicable.  Hope im making some sort of sense here.

[shaneg55]

Still no thoughts on this from anyone?