Replace all quotes (") inside HTML tags using PHP
Mar 31st, 2010 | Comments (0)
If you've ever stored HTML tags in a database and filtered the contents through PHP's htmlentities(), you've probably run into the problem of the quotes inside the tags being converted into " entities.
Example:
<a href="http://www.epigroove.com/">Epigroove.com</a>
turns into:
<a href="http://www.epigroove.com/">Epigroove.com</a>
Most browsers can handle this, but IE can not.
Solution:
$text = preg_replace('/<([^<>]+)>/e', '"<" .str_replace(""", \'"\', "$1").">"', $text);
This replaces all instances of '"' inside HTML tags.
Example:
<a href="http://www.epigroove.com/">Epigroove.com</a>
turns into:
<a href="http://www.epigroove.com/">Epigroove.com</a>
Most browsers can handle this, but IE can not.
Solution:
$text = preg_replace('/<([^<>]+)>/e', '"<" .str_replace(""", \'"\', "$1").">"', $text);
This replaces all instances of '"' inside HTML tags.
