Regex to match words or phrases in string but NOT match if part of a URL or inside tags. (php)

Question

I am aware that regex is not ideal for use with HTML strings and I have looked at the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser but still believe this is the way to go. All the HTML tags w

Answer 1

Unfortunately I think the logic you need is still more complex than text pattern matching :-/

I know it's not the answer you want to hear, but you'll probably get better results with a DOM model.

Here's a discussion of this topic elsewhere: http://coderzone.org/forum/index.php?topic=84.0

Is it possible to just run the filter once, so you don't end up with dupes? Or could the original corpus also include links?