Re: Parsing HTML href-Attribute

Edmund Hertle wrote: >> * http://www.google.com/search?q=php ... absolute path >> (yes, it's a URL, >> but treat it as absolute) >> * https://www.example.com/index.php ... absolute path (yes, >> it's a URL, >> but to the local server) >> * /index.php ... absolute path (no protocol given, true absolute path) >> * index.php ... relative path (relative to current directory on current >> server) >> * somefolder/index.php ... relative path (same reason) >> >> That is indeed a nifty use of look-ahead, though. That will work for any >> anchor tag that doesn't reference the server (or any other server) with a >> protocol spec preceding it. However, if you want to run it through an entire >> list of anchor tags with any spec (http://, https://, >> udp://, ftp://, >> aim://, rss://, etc.)--or lack of spec--and only mess with those that don't >> have a spec and don't use absolute paths, it needs to get a bit more >> complex. You've convinced me, however, that it can be done entirely with one >> regex pattern. >> >> // Todd > > > Hey! > Wow, I think that was exactly what I was looking for... thank all of you... > although I've not tested it, will do that tomorrow, but sounds very nice > > But Todd just confused me quite a bit with the statement: Is /index.php a > case where the RegEx will fail? > > To add some background: It is about dynamiclly creating pdf files out of > html source code and then the links should also work in the pdf file. So > other protocolls then http:// shouldn't be a problem > > -eddy > That regex should work on all hrefs. index.php and /index.php will be replaced with http://www.example.com/index.php and somedir/index.php and /somedir/index.php will be replaced with http://www.example.com/somedir/index.php. Any URL starting with http:// or https:// will be ignored. Again, I say that it won't work on URLs with spaces, like "my web page.html". When I get a minute I'll fix it. I thought spaces in URLs weren't valid markup, but it seems to validate. -- Thanks! -Shawn http://www.spidean.com