Inserting alt attribute inside img tag

[Claudek]

Hello,

I am trying to implement the following code but am finding that it does not work for some reason. It converts any <img> tags to XHTML 1.0 compliant format and adds an alt tag with a predefined value. I hope someone can point me in the correct part to modify/correct/replace please. $source contains the html code being fed to it.

Function convertToXHTML_img($source) {
  // Since <img> has not closing tag, remove all
  $newDescription = str_replace("</img>", "", "$source");
  
  // Use regular expressions to find <img ... >
  if (preg_match_all("/<img[^>]*>/i", $newDescription, $match) !== FALSE) {
    // Make sure it truely was a match
    for ($x = 0; $x < count($match[0]); $x++) {
      if ($match[0][$x] != "") {
        // Save the image
        $theImage = $match[0][$x];
        
        // If the tag isn't closed with />, make it so
        if (stristr(str_replace(" ", "", $theImage), "/>") === FALSE) {
          $theImage = str_replace(">", "/>", $theImage);
        }
        
        // Check for the alt="" tag
        if (stristr(str_replace(" ", "", $theImage), "alt=") === FALSE) {
          $theImage = str_replace("/>", " alt=\"$xyz\" />", $theImage);
        }
        
        // Remove the image from the description
        $newDescription = str_replace($match[0][$x], $theImage, $newDescription);
      }
    }
  }
  
  return $newDescription;

Thanks,
Claudek

[guido2004]

What does "doesn't work" mean? No output at all? Or an output that isn't what you want?
Can you give an example of the input, the output you're getting right now, and the output you want?

[Claudek]

Doesn't work means it is not adding the /> tag or adding the Alt attribute as it should in the code.

I have tested it with pages where the html includes <img> tags and no alt tags but for some reason that code does not add the alt attribute for some reason. I am sure it is something simple in the code but I have been looking at it so long, I appear to be blinded to it.

What does "doesn't work" mean? No output at all? Or an output that isn't what you want?
Can you give an example of the input, the output you're getting right now, and the output you want?

[techsupport21]

it works...make sure you're actually setting $xyz