Find and replace with wildcards

  • riprod

    (@riprod)


    13 years, 4 months ago

    I’m using blogpress on my iPad to post to my wordpress blog. It uses the GPS to find and posts the location to the blog in the form :

    <p class="blogpress_location">Location:<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Miami,United%20States%4016.327043%2C-81.166456&z=10">Miami,United States</a></p>

    I want to be able to show a Google Map in the blog instead and am using Google Maps v3 Shortcode, which needs the format :

    [map w="500" h="400" map id="map7" z="7" address="Miami Beach,United States" marker="yes"]

    Any idea of some code or plugin that I can use to do a find and replace with wildcards to turn the link into the map shortcode.

    Eg:
    find <p class="blogpress_location">Location:<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=**wildcard**&z=10">
    replace with
    [map w="500" h="400" map id="map7" z="7" address="**wildcard**" marker="yes"]

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  • Simon Prosser

    (@pross)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Try preg_replace()

    Thread Starter riprod

    (@riprod)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    thanks, that looks like what I need but it’s a little over my head. Could you be a little more specific. Where in WP would I use it, what file do I edit ? Is there already a plugin created that would use it ?

    Simon Prosser

    (@pross)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    you could add a filter to your theme functions file:

    (this is not tested)

    add_filter('the_content', 'my_filter');

function my_filter( $content ) {

str_replace( '<p class="blogpress_location">Location:<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=', '[map w="500" h="400" map id="map7" z="7" address="', $content);

str_replace( '&z=10">', '" marker="yes"]', $content );

return $content;
}
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