How to replace "a" tag with "img" using regex in php?

Question

<div class="media_embed" height="qqq" width="www">
<a href="http://giphy.com/gifs/dancing">via GIPHY</a>
<div class="media_embed" height="eee" width="rrr">
<a href="http://giphy.com/gifs/movie">via GIPHY</a>

i want to do this: i have to get de href from anchor tag and put it bewtween img tags and add figure tag

<figure>
  <img src="http://giphy.com/gifs/dancing" />
</figure>
<figure>
  <img src="http://giphy.com/gifs/movie" />
</figure>

can you please help me

Don't use regex, use a parser. – chris85 Nov 18 '16 at 19:04 — chris85, Nov 18 '16 at 19:04
Please mark my answer to finishing this discussion. – Mohammad Nov 30 '16 at 09:22 — Mohammad, Nov 30 '16 at 09:22

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '16 at 19:22

The best solution is parsing html and then change it. You can use DOMDocument to parse html. But if you want to use regex, use preg_replace() to replace a tag with another tag.

echo preg_replace("/<a href=\"(.*)\">.*<\/a>/", "<figure><img src='$1' /></figure>", $html)

Check result in demo

How to replace "a" tag with "img" using regex in php?

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