Regular expression to replace an with respective

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I\'m looking for a PHP preg_replace() solution find links to images and replace them with respective image tags.

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Answer 1

Congratulations, you are the one millionth customer to ask Stack Overflow how to parse HTML with regex!

[X][HT]ML is not a regular language and cannot reliably be parsed with regex. Use an HTML parser. PHP itself gives you DOMDocument, or you may prefer simplehtmldom.

Incidentally, you cannot tell what type a file is by looking at its URL. There is no reason a JPEG has to have ‘.jpeg’ as its extension — and indeed, no guarantee that a file with ‘.jpeg’ extension will actually be JPEG. The only way to be certain is to fetch the resource (eg. using a HEAD request) and look at the Content-Type header.