Inserting 'Something' Into A String

[ChuckB]

Hello everyone..

Let's say I have this

$string = '<a>some text</a><a>some text</a><a>some text</a>'; 

And I want to insert a <div> tag before every anchor tag and a </div> after every close anchor tag. Is this possible in PHP? (I'm coming from JavaScript)..

[Charles]

My first choice would be to just use CSS to display the A elements as blocks.

Not knowing just what sort of HTML you will be tinkering with, my second choice would be to use DOMDocument. HTML has way too many ins and outs to just manipulate the string. See http://php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php .

But if the HTML really is a simple as the example you have given then just use str_replace. See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php .

[ChuckB]

Thanks a lot...this give me some direction..