regex preg_match_all question

I was working on a method of scraping my own file into another page:

$contents_of_page = file_get_contents('bible.html');

function getTextBetweenTags($string, $tagname) {
    $pattern = "/<$tagname ?.*>(.*)<\/$tagname>/";
    preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $matches);
    return $matches[1];
}

$str = '<table><tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>gn</td><td>Genesis</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr></table>';
$txt = getTextBetweenTags($str, "td");
print_r($txt);

PHP:

$txt brings only In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

What I want is to replace:

$txt = '<table><tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>gn</td><td>Genesis</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr></table>';

PHP:

into

$txt = '<table><tr><td class="book">1</td><td class="chapter">1</td><td class="verse">1</td><td class="recordType">gn</td><td class="book_title">Genesis</td><td class="book_spoke">1</td><td class="chapter_spoke">1</td><td class="verse_spoke">1</td><td class="something_else">1</td><td>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr></table>';

PHP:

 

This may be what you're looking for:

<?php

foreach($matches as $match) {
$match = preg_replace("/REGEX/", "<table>etc.</table>", $match)
}

print_r($matches);

?>

PHP:

 

I was working on it and got this so far:

$string = "<table><tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>gn</td><td>Genesis</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr></table>";
$patterns[0] = "/<td/";
$names = Array("book", "chapter", "verse", "recordType", "book_title", "book_spoke", "chapter_spoke", "verse_spoke", "something_else", "text_data");

for($repNames=0; $repNames<count($names); $repNames++){
	$replacements[$repNames] = "<td class=\"".$names[$repNames]."\"";

}
echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string)."\n";

PHP:

One thing I don't understand is why are all the classes book?

<table>
    <tr>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">gn</td>
        <td class="book">Genesis</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">1</td>
        <td class="book">In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Code (markup):

There seems something wrong with the for loop. It's only reading the first in the array.

 

I'll answer my own problem:

$string = "<table><tr><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>gn</td><td>Genesis</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr></table>";
$patterns[0] = "/<td>/";
$names = Array("book", "chapter", "verse", "recordType", "book_title", "book_spoke", "chapter_spoke", "verse_spoke", "something_else", "text_data");

foreach($names as $repNames => $name){
        $patterns[] = $patterns[0];
        $replacements[] = "<td class=\"".$name."\">";
} 
echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string, 1)."\n";

PHP:

echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string, 1)."\n";

<table>
<tr>
<td class="book">1</td>
<td class="chapter">1</td>
<td class="verse">1</td>
<td class="recordType">gn</td>
<td class="book_title">Genesis</td>
<td class="book_spoke">1</td>
<td class="chapter_spoke">1</td>
<td class="verse_spoke">1</td>
<td class="something_else">1</td>
<td class="text_data">In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td>
</tr>
</table>

Code (markup):