How to replace one blockquote tag with span tag php

I have tag in my content. I need to replace all those tags by span tags: for eg: my contenti is wrapped like :

<blockquote>my content</blockquote> .

I need to replace this with :

<span class="highlight">content</span>

How can i achieve this in PHP. I tried some preg_replace but nothing worked. Can anyone please help.

Thanks in advance.

2012-04-04 18:03
by Sabari

try

preg_replace('/<blockqoute>.*?(.*?)<\/p>.*?<\/blockqoute>/i', '$1', $string);

2012-04-04 18:14
by Edhen

It does not work :( .. Actually i need to remove the

tags inside the

as well... only the contents should come inside spa - Sabari 2012-04-04 18:19

I just edited it to add the p tags and i test before and it worked, are u assigning it to a variable? like

$replace = preg_replace('/<blockqoute><p>(.*)<\/p><\/blockqoute>/i', '<span class="highlight">$1</span>', $subject); echo $replace;

- Edhen 2012-04-04 18:27

One more issue i am having is that sometimes a space comes between blockquote tag and p tag like

contennt

. How can we replace that as wel - Sabari 2012-04-04 18:40

preg_replace('/<blockqoute>.*?(.*)<\/p>.*?<\/blockqoute>/i', '$1', $string);Edhen 2012-04-04 18:46

I updated my answer and i also forgot to include a ? inside the pattern. But that code should work fine - Edhen 2012-04-04 19:05

Your answer works fine :) thnks : - Sabari 2012-04-05 05:26

Certainly not the best solution, but should be good enough and doesn't require regex:

$string = str_replace('<blockquote><p>', '<span class="highlight">', $string);
$string = str_replace('</p></blockquote>', '</span>', $string);

Alternatively:

$search = array('<blockquote><p>', '</p></blockquote>');
$replace = array('<span class="highlight">', '</span>');
$string = str_replace($search, $replace, $string);

2012-04-04 18:06
by Andreas Wong

forgot the  and  tags.. - Dan O 2012-04-04 18:07

@orzechowskid thanks for pointing that out : - Andreas Wong 2012-04-04 18:10