Search entire text for images - string

Question

I have a problem with a project.
I need to search a string for images.
I want to get the source of the image and modify the html form of the img tag.
For example the image form is:
and I want to change it to:
<div class="col-md-3">
<hr class="visible-sm visible-xs tall" />
<a class="img-thumbnail lightbox pull-left" href="upload/uploader/up_164.jpg" data-plugin-options='{"type":"image"}' title="Image title">
<img class="img-responsive" width="215" src="upload/uploader/up_164.jpg"><span class="zoom"><i class="fa fa-search"></i>
</span></a>
I have done some part of this.
I can find the image, change the form of the html but cannot loop this for all images found in the string.
My code goes like
Using the following function I get the string between two strings
// Get substring between
function GetBetween($var1="",$var2="",$pool){
$temp1 = strpos($pool,$var1)+strlen($var1);
$result = substr($pool,$temp1,strlen($pool));
$dd=strpos($result,$var2);
if($dd == 0){
$dd = strlen($result);
}
return substr($result,0,$dd);
}
And then I get the image tag from the string
$imageFile = GetBetween("img","/>",$newText);
The next was to filter the source of the image:
$imageSource = GetBetween('src="','\"',$imageFile);
And for the last part I call str_replace to do the job:
$newText = str_replace('oldform', 'newform', $newText);
The problem is in case there are more tha one images, I cannot loop this process.
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The best, simple and safe way to read an xml file is to use an xml parser.
And, I think you will gain a lot of time.