PHP - replace NAME to CLASS and strip onclick attribute

Question

I have a string:

   $str =  'title="favorite" name="fav_1" onclick="return ..."'

I want to replace name to class and stripe onclick attribute.

What I have tried ?:

    $str = 'title="favorite" name="fav_12" onclick="return.."';

    $replace = str_replace('name', 'class', $str);

Humm.. its okey. what is your problem ?

If I use str_replace then I need to repeat this step two time, first for replacing name to class and second stripe onclick to blank space.

Repeating code is not a problem, but str_replace will not work If I dont know what is inside onclick="...".

So please suggest how do I replacing name to class and stripping onclick just in single line of code.

[THE PONY HE COMES](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — Niet the Dark Absol, Sep 18 '13 at 12:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:20

2

The simplest way would be to use:

preg_replace('/onclick=".*"/', '', $str);

But you should look into a DOM parser, as the above would probably break at some point.

answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:20

Ben Fortune

@user007 any reason you're ignoring [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454)? – Kermit Sep 18 '13 at 12:23
No I am not ignoring this answer :-) – user007 Sep 18 '13 at 12:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:23

1

A simple solution would be:

$str = preg_replace('/onclick="([^"]+)"/', ' ', $str);

But if there are some quotes inside the onclick quotes, it'll fail (even if they're escaped with \).

answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:23

h3llb0y

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