Regular expression to replace HREFs with #

Hello!

Need regular expression to replace all HREFs in A tags with # - all I found on php.net was

eregi_replace('<a [^<]*href=["|\']?([^ "\']*)["|\']?[^>].*>','<a href="#">', $string);

which doesn't work.

Are there any ready-to-go solutions?

Thanks
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You want to change the actual link or change the href part?

 

I want to replace URLs in links with # symbol but save additional attributes of A tags.

 

Try this,

    $var = preg_replace("/\s([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\_\.\-]*[a-zA-Z]*
            \@[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9\_\.\-]*[a-zA-Z]{2,6})([\s|\.|\,])/i",
            " <a href=\"$1\">", $var);

PHP:

 

Exactly opposite thing needed: from

<A href="link_here" class="someClass" target="_someTarget">

Code (markup):

I need to make

<A href="#" class="someClass" target="_someTarget">

Code (markup):

in full page's code (in simple words I need PHProxy to replace all clickable A tags into # anchors)

 

preg_replace ("/href=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]/i", "href='#'", $url);

PHP:

 

Thanks but this expression going to rewrite Link/Style tags also (<link rel="style" href="some_href") - need to replace only A tags. Getting errors (like everything replaced with #) then trying to use something like
/<a*href=['\"][^'\"]*['\"]/i/

 

use /<a[^>]*=['"][^'"]*['"]/i if you want to match only a tags href. (Note: the escape char \ is for the php string)

 

Any ideas how does it looks like in working form? Because

$_response_body = eregi_replace('/<a[^>]*=[\'"][^\'"]*[\'"]/i','<a href="#"',$_response_body);

does nothing.

 

Try this regexp:

$_response_body = preg_replace('/<a(.*)href=\"(.*?)\"(.*)>/', '<a$1href="#"$3>', $_response_body)

PHP:

I tested it.. it works.

 

Not with Reddit's front page - only with like 50% of links in there. Investigating.
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Problem with that one is that it will mess you up if you come across something like this:

<a name='whatever'>blahblahblah <a href='click here'>

All the necessary pieces of the puzzle have been posted here, but strangely never together at once.

What you want is closer to this:

$new = preg_replace('/(<a[^>]+href=")[^"]+/i', '\1#', $old);

PHP: