Forum Moderators: coopster
If I understand what you want, you might need to study preg_match, too.
With that, you might create an array of all the <a href ... > $matches in $content. You could then do a for loop to test which urls might already have a query string (?). If one does, you could explode on the? and then concatenate back together, like:
$replacements[$i]=$exploded_matches[0]."?ref=$ref&".$exploded_matchesl[1];
...else (if it doesn't have a?), assign a value to $replacements[$i] similar to your how you did your original preg_replace.
Then do your actual $content replacement for $matches[$i], like:
$content = preg_replace($matches[$i], $replacements[$i], $content);
...close the loop...some necessary punctuation may be missing here, but that's the kind of scheme I'd try.
I hope that helps,
Salsa
PS: On this forum, spaces are removed from before characters like "!" and "?" when you post, so watch for that when you're reading other's code.
$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
$content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
$patterns = array('/(<a[^>]*href=[\'"])([^\'"?]+)([\'"].*>.*<\/a>)/iUs', '/(<a[^>]*href=[\'"])([^\'"]+)([\'"].*>.*<\/a>)/iUs');
$replacements = array("\\1\\2?ref=$ref\\3", "\\1\\2&ref=$ref\\3");
$content = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $content);
echo $content;
It still not works coz for some reason it made another loop. I got a question. How will I make a preg_replace that will find a link that contains "&"? I still got confuse with regex.
