In need of help with preg_replace

[orlandu63]

Hello all. I'm attempting to make an HTML fetcher type of script. So far I'm doing good, but I have stumbled across a problem: I'm trying to replace every link in the document with a link going through my site (for statistics). Something like this:

<a href="http://www.yahoo.com" title="...">
with
<a href="http://www.site.com/fetch?http://www.yahoo.com" title="...">

Sadly, I'm no good with Regex and don't expect to even remotely grasp the syntax anytime soon. So anyone mind showing me the proper regex to use for this kind of script?

Oh and I already know that a number of sites don't use the full URL, but rather something like /dogs/index.php to navigate through the site, but I think I can handle that on my own.

Thanks in advance.

[stereofrog]

$re = "~<a([^<>]+?)href=([\'\"])~si";

matches "<a" then any number of arbitrary chars (to handle <a title=... href=...) then "href" and a quote. The replacement string should look like this

$repl = "<a$1href=$2http://www.site.com/fetch?";

Putting it all together

$new = preg_replace($re, $repl, $html);

[Salkcin]

Here´s another way:

preg_replace('/(?<=<a href=")(.*?")/', 'http://www.site.com/fetch?\\1', $string); 

[orlandu63]

Thank you tons, guys (or gals). I'll be sure to acknowledge you two (and this forum in general) with proper credit!