Regex / DOMDocument - match and replace text not in a link

Question

I need to find and replace all text matches in a case insensitive way, unless the text is within an anchor tag - for example:

Match this text and re         


        

Answer 1

Try this one:

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html_content);

function preg_replace_dom($regex, $replacement, DOMNode $dom, array $excludeParents = array()) {
  if (!empty($dom->childNodes)) {
    foreach ($dom->childNodes as $node) {
      if ($node instanceof DOMText && 
          !in_array($node->parentNode->nodeName, $excludeParents)) 
      {
        $node->nodeValue = preg_replace($regex, $replacement, $node->nodeValue);
      } 
      else
      {
        preg_replace_dom($regex, $replacement, $node, $excludeParents);
      }
    }
  }
}

preg_replace_dom('/match this text/i', 'IT WORKS', $dom->documentElement, array('a'));