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Match link text and querystring of href PHP

I am using PHP.

I need to take the text inside the a tag and add it to the querystring of the href attribute.

Example:

<a href="page.php">sometext</a>

becomes:

<a href="page.php?q=sometext">sometext</a>

So I just links any word to page.php, but when a user clicks on it it goes "page.php?q=sometext", or the actual link changes from "page.php" to "page.php?q=sometext".

If possible, please make an example using jsfiddle.net or phpfiddle.org

Solution

  • You can do this in the client side with jQuery:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function(){
        $('a').each(function(index, element){
            href = $(element).attr('href');
            $(element).attr('href', href + "?q=" + $(element).text());
        });
    });
</script>

    an example: https://jsfiddle.net/jgj7k19o/