Append text to the first occurrence of an image inside a string

Question

I am trying to add a string after the first occurrence of an <img> tag.

Let say that I have the following html markup:

<p>text here text here text here text here text here
<img class="img-class" src="image1.jpg" srcset="" alt="" />
text here text here text here text here text here text here text here
text here text here <img class="img-class" src="image2.jpg" srcset="" alt="" />
text here text here text here text here

Using a Regular Expression - How can add text after the first <img> tag?

Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1252693 :o) — Ukuser32, Mar 16 '16 at 09:55
Nice but I don't want to replace I want to place after the tag some text, the itself should be a regex lookup — Broshi, Mar 16 '16 at 10:01
Ah ok - my mistake. You want to do a preg_match then let me create an answer. — Ukuser32, Mar 16 '16 at 10:02

Ukuser32 · Answer 1 · 2016-03-16T10:18:30.623

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Try this:

preg_replace('#(<img[^>]* />)#','$1.$myText',$content,1)

Where $text is the string you want to add the extra and YOURTEXT should be a variable to add after the first image. Remember to add a space to YOURTEXT.

edited Mar 16 '16 at 10:18

answered Mar 16 '16 at 10:04

Ukuser32

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Such as: `preg_replace('#(]* />)#',$1.$myText,$content,1);` ? not sure I got the $1.$Var thing – Broshi Mar 16 '16 at 10:11
Don't worry $1 comes from the preg_replace - its the matching string found in the ( ). Ignore that. But yes your code looks correct. – Ukuser32 Mar 16 '16 at 10:15
Nope, Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '1.' (T_DNUMBER), expecting variable (T_VARIABLE) or '$' – Broshi Mar 16 '16 at 10:17
Ah sorry - 2 secs and I'll update my answer – Ukuser32 Mar 16 '16 at 10:18
Nope, I got the the right solution, posting it as an answer – Broshi Mar 16 '16 at 14:02

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '16 at 14:04

Got it! this is how I did it:

$myText = 'Text I want to add';
preg_match('#(<img[^>]* />)#',$content,$matches);
if ( ! empty( $matches ) AND ! empty( $matches[0] ) )
{
    $content = str_replace($matches[0], $matches[0] . $myText, $content);
}

This will add $myText right after the first <img> match inside $content

Append text to the first occurrence of an image inside a string

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