note 119793 added to function.str-replace

Decision to avoid problem "it might replace a previously inserted value when doing multiple replacements. See also the examples in this document." $urls - array of urls i want to replace with tag <a> and urls could be similar http://abc.com/parameter/ http://abc.com/ // at first sort by length to have longest firstly usort($urls,'sortByLen'); $replaces=[]; // replace all urls with unique foreach($urls as $url){ $replace = '__REPLACE' . uniqid() . '__'; $text = str_replace($url,$replace, $text); $replaces[$replace] = '<a href="' . $url . '">' . $url . '</a>'; } foreach($replaces as $key => $replace){ $text = str_replace($key,$replace, $text); } -------------- function sortByLen($a,$b){ return strlen($b)-strlen($a); } Hope it will help others like me ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 178.150.175.132 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/119793 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/119793 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/119793 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php