How to add rel="nofollow" to links with preg_replace()

Try this one (PHP 5.3+):

  • skip selected address
  • allow manually set rel parameter

and code:

function nofollow($html, $skip = null) {
    return preg_replace_callback(
        "#(<a[^>]+?)>#is", function ($mach) use ($skip) {
            return (
                !($skip && strpos($mach[1], $skip) !== false) &&
                strpos($mach[1], 'rel=') === false
            ) ? $mach[1] . ' rel="nofollow">' : $mach[0];
        },
        $html
    );
}

Examples: 

echo nofollow('<a href="link somewhere" rel="something">something</a>');
// will be same because it's already contains rel parameter

echo nofollow('<a href="http://www.cnn.com">something</a>'); // ad
// add rel="nofollow" parameter to anchor

echo nofollow('<a href="http://localhost">something</a>', 'localhost');
// skip this link as internall link

Here is the DOMDocument solution...

$str = '<a href="http://localhost/mytest/">internal</a>

<a href="http://localhost/mytest/go/hostgator">internal cloaked link</a>

<a href="http://cnn.com" rel="me">external</a>

<a href="http://google.com">external</a>

<a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">external</a>

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" rel="junk in the rel">external</a>
';
$dom = new DOMDocument();

$dom->preserveWhitespace = FALSE;

$dom->loadHTML($str);

$a = $dom->getElementsByTagName('a');

$host = strtok($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], ':');

foreach($a as $anchor) {
        $href = $anchor->attributes->getNamedItem('href')->nodeValue;

        if (preg_match('/^https?:\/\/' . preg_quote($host, '/') . '/', $href)) {
           continue;
        }

        $noFollowRel = 'nofollow';
        $oldRelAtt = $anchor->attributes->getNamedItem('rel');

        if ($oldRelAtt == NULL) {
            $newRel = $noFollowRel;
        } else {
            $oldRel = $oldRelAtt->nodeValue;
            $oldRel = explode(' ', $oldRel);
            if (in_array($noFollowRel, $oldRel)) {
                continue;
            }
            $oldRel[] = $noFollowRel;
            $newRel = implode($oldRel,  ' ');
        }

        $newRelAtt = $dom->createAttribute('rel');
        $noFollowNode = $dom->createTextNode($newRel);
        $newRelAtt->appendChild($noFollowNode);
        $anchor->appendChild($newRelAtt);

}

var_dump($dom->saveHTML());

Output

string(509) "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html><body>
<a href="http://localhost/mytest/">internal</a>

<a href="http://localhost/mytest/go/hostgator">internal cloaked link</a>

<a href="http://cnn.com" rel="me nofollow">external</a>

<a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow">external</a>

<a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">external</a>

<a href="http://stackoverflow.com" rel="junk in the rel nofollow">external</a>
</body></html>
"

Try to make it more readable first, and only afterwards make your if rules more complex:

function save_rseo_nofollow($content) {
    $content["post_content"] =
    preg_replace_callback('~<(a\s[^>]+)>~isU', "cb2", $content["post_content"]);
    return $content;
}

function cb2($match) { 
    list($original, $tag) = $match;   // regex match groups

    $my_folder =  "/hostgator";       // re-add quirky config here
    $blog_url = "http://localhost/";

    if (strpos($tag, "nofollow")) {
        return $original;
    }
    elseif (strpos($tag, $blog_url) && (!$my_folder || !strpos($tag, $my_folder))) {
        return $original;
    }
    else {
        return "<$tag rel='nofollow'>";
    }
}

Gives following output:

[post_content] =>
  <a href="http://localhost/mytest/">internal</a>
  <a href="http://localhost/mytest/go/hostgator" rel=nofollow>internal cloaked link</a>    
  <a href="http://cnn.com" rel=nofollow>external</a>

The problem in your original code might have been $rseo which wasn't declared anywhere.

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