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Absolutize Relative Links Using PHP and Preg_Replace_Callback

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Posted 13 Jan 2010 — by admin
Category php

I was in the market for a simple php script to replace hrefs with their absolute paths from scraped web pages. I wrote one myself. I used the preg_replace_callback function so that I could pass the parsed results as a single variable. 

<?php
$domain = "http://seanbehan.com";
$pattern = "/\bhref=[\"|'](.*?)[\"|']/";
$string = file_get_contents($domain);

// prepends relative links w/ $domain skips returns the match if already absolute
function replace_href($match){
  global $domain;
  if(substr($match[1], 0, 7)!=="http://" && substr($match[1],0,8)!=="https://"){
    return "href='".$domain.$match[1]."'";
  } else {
    return "href='".$match[1]."'s";
  }
}
print preg_replace_callback($pattern, "replace_href", $string);
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