preg match and replace

Question

here i have some content with some links .in this code i want to replace all those links with modified links the Fucction get_web_page gives me the modified links.

$text='<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2tx">google</a>dfhjksdf sdjfkhdskjf sddsf <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d8r">Microsft.com</a>';

preg_match_all('/<a [^>]*href="?([^">]+)"?>/', $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

foreach ($matches as $ht)
{
    $new_link=get_web_page($ht[1]);
    $new_link=$new_link['url'];
    echo $gg=str_replace($ht[1], $new_link, $text);
}

in above code everything is working fine except the foreach loop the loop is repeating the output and in first output only firest link is replaced. in second out only second link is replaced.

the output is like this

<a href="http://www.google.vg/">google</a>dfhjksdf sdjfkhdskjf sddsf <a href="http://tinyurl.com/d8r">Microsft.com</a>

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2tx">google</a>dfhjksdf sdjfkhdskjf sddsf <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx">Microsft.com</a>

i want it to replace all the links at once and the output should the input $text with modified links.

can anyone tell me where i am going wrong ?

It's true that it is possible to use `Regex` to parse html... _But_ is not it easier to use Dom Parser instead of struggling to somehow manage that your regex worked for different inputs? — Leri, Jun 01 '13 at 07:44
Take a look at [this](http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php). — Leri, Jun 01 '13 at 07:49
i have done that with dom but still stuck at that look that loop is replacing only 1st link — Paisley Jaley, Jun 01 '13 at 07:54

preg match and replace

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