Re: Regex to wrap <a href=""> tag around a <p> tag

The second parameter to preg_replace is the replacement string (with optional backreferences), not another patern. Use '/<p\>(.*)(?=<\/p>)/' for patern, '<a href="edit_paragraph&text=$1"><p>$1' for replacement string, however, this does not urlencode the text parameter. You can use preg_replace_callback instead of preg_replace to encode it in the callback function. This won't work for long paragraphs because the lenght of GET request is limited. Change it to use forms instead. Shaun wrote:

Hi, I am trying to read the contents of a file into a string and wrap an <a href=""> tag around every <p> tag and output it to the browser. This is how far I have got: // Get file contents $file_contents = file_get_contents($file); // Replace <p> tags $file_contents = preg_replace('/^<p\>[a-z][0-9]<\/p>$/', '/^<a href="edit_paragraph&text="">\<p>[a-z][0-9]<\/p><\/a>$/', $file_contents); // Output to browser echo $file_contents; I have two problems. 1. - The regex doesn't work! 2. - I need to add the <p> tags and all contents to the link Here is an example <html> <body> <p>Here is a paragraph</p> <p>Here is another paragraph</p> </body> </html> would become <html> <body> <a href="edit_paragraph&text="<p>Here is a paragraph</p>"><p>Here is a paragraph</p></a> <a href="edit_paragraph&text="<p>Here is another paragraph</p>"><p>Here is another paragraph</p></a> </body> </html> Any advice would be greatly appreciated