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PHP regex help preg_replace

experts,

I need some help with some regex and the php function preg_replace.

for some reason this is not working;

$ret = preg_replace('/((?:href|src) *= *[\'"])(?!(http|ftp))/i', 'this is a test', $ret);

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this is my input

<marker icon="Marker.png" name="gcc1b3-rockin-around-the-salt-photo-five.jpg" width="2048" height="1536" thmname="gcc1b3-rockin-around-the-salt-photo-five-th.jpg" thmwidth="160" thmheight="120" date="16/03/2008 10:59:36 AM" datum="WGS 1984" alt="164.4553" altunits="feet" title="GCC1B3 Rockin' Around the Salt" html="<div id="infotitle">GCC1B3 Rockin' Around the Salt</div><div id="infoimg"><a href='gcc1b3-rockin-around-the-salt-photo-five.jpg' title='Click for a full size view' target='_blank'><img src='gcc1b3-rockin-around-the-salt-photo-five-th.jpg' width='160' border='0' height='120' /></a></div>" lat="-20.67069" lng="116.73424"/>

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in summary I am converting relative links to absolute.

thanks

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Travis Hydzik

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I want to add the absolute path, so if it was something like href='myfile' it would be modified to href='http://mysite.com//myfile'

I am thinking it would be something similar to
$ret = preg_replace('/((?:href|src) *= *[\'"])(?!(http|ftp))/i', '$1'.$url, $ret);
where $url is the absolute url i.e. http://mysite.com/ in the example.

if they are already absolute urls then it should be skipped.

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Travis Hydzik

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what about if double quotes are used instead of single?

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Travis Hydzik

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original regex was correct.

Travis Hydzik

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sorry, missing one set of brackets

$ret = preg_replace('/((?:href|src) *= *(?:&apos;|&quot;)(?!(http|ftp)))/i', "$1".$xml_path, $ret);

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