preg_matching a "value=""" attribute

[HotshotONE]

Ok,

After hours of trying to solve this myself I am finally asking for help.

 

Here is the problem. I have content in a DB which I pull to a PHP file that allows you to edit it. But in some of my html tags the value="" attributes have forbidden characters like /'s that must remain in there but keep breaking the code up. I basically need to have a preg_match_all function that finds all the attribute tags and replaces the /'s with \/'s. I cannot use addslashes or anything like that because it messes up the other HTML tags.

 

Here is my code:

	$content = $data_desired['page_content'];


$i = preg_match_all("/value=\"([\/ \\ 0-9 a-z _ \+ \* ! \? \-]* )\"/six", $content, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
echo "Match 1:".$matches[0][1]."<br>";
echo "Match 2:".$matches[1][1]."<br>";

$nm = count($i);
$num = 0;

while($nm > $num || $nm == $num){
$x1 = str_replace("/","\\/",$matches[$num][1]);
$x2 = str_replace("value=\"".$matches[$num][1]."\"", "value=\"".$x1."\"", $content);
$num++;
}

echo $x2."<br>"; /* Gets put in a text area where the user can edit the code instead of echo */

 

Now...I have some HTML in a DB with two value attributes. The above code works & finds & fixes both value attributes when I paste the content in the content variable like this:

$content = "blahblahblahblahblahblahblah etc...."

 

But when I pull the content from the DB it only matches the first one. I don't understand why it won't work if it is pulled from the DB. Can anybody offer me any advice?

 

Here is the exact code in the DB if you need to look at the long version: Click Here Otherwise, the short version is below.

 

This is a short example of what I have:

<p align="center">
<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" />
<strong>
<input alt="Make payments with PayPal" src="http://www.daughtersofzion.us/ordernow.gif" border="0" name="submit" type="image" />
</strong>
<input name="encrypted" type="hidden" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----MIIHoAYJK/oZIhvcNAQcEoIIHkTCCB40CAQE//xggEwMIIBLA/IBADCBlDCBjjELMAk/3NK0rErWobSnJWrJ4UXU8riM-----END PKCS7-----" /></p>

 

I need it to change to:

<p align="center">
<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" />
<strong>
<input alt="Make payments with PayPal" src="http://www.daughtersofzion.us/ordernow.gif" border="0" name="submit" type="image" />
</strong>
<input name="encrypted" type="hidden" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----MIIHoAYJK\/oZIhvcNAQcEoIIHkTCCB40CAQE\/\/xggEwMIIBLA\/IBADCBlDCBjjELMAk\/3NK0rErWobSnJWrJ4UXU8riM-----END PKCS7-----" /></p>

 

 

 

 

[effigy]

<pre>
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
<p align="center">
<form method="post" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr">
<input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" />
<strong>
<input alt="Make payments with PayPal" src="http://www.daughtersofzion.us/ordernow.gif" border="0" name="submit" type="image" />
</strong>
<input name="encrypted" type="hidden" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----MIIHoAYJK/oZIhvcNAQcEoIIHkTCCB40CAQE//xggEwMIIBLA/IBADCBlDCBjjELMAk/3NK0rErWobSnJWrJ4UXU8riM-----END PKCS7-----" /></p>
DATA;

function parse_value ($matches) {
	return preg_replace('%/%', '\/', $matches[0]);
}

$data = preg_replace_callback('/(?<=value=")([^"]+)/', 'parse_value', $data);
echo htmlspecialchars($data);
?>
</pre>