<?php
$html = '
some content here <a href="/uploads/2014/04/Draft-99990-Details.doc">Draft 99995 Details</a> more text here <a href="/uploads/2014/04/01090-vs-G01010-series.pdf">01095 vs G01015 Series</a> and some final text here
';
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$replacement = 'FOO';
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $node) {
$href = $node->getAttribute('href');
$node->setAttribute('href', preg_replace('/([a-z])?\d{5}/i', $replacement, $href));
}
$html = preg_replace('~<(?:!DOCTYPE|/?(?:html|body))[^>]*>\s*~i', '', $dom->saveHTML());
echo $html;
<p>some content here <a href="/uploads/2014/04/Draft-FOO-Details.doc">Draft 99995 Details</a> more text here <a href="/uploads/2014/04/FOO-vs-FOO-series.pdf">01095 vs G01015 Series</a> and some final text here
</p>
Output for 4.3.2 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.9
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: domdocument in <b>/in/OjnCl</b> on line <b>7</b><br />
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.1
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: domdocument in <b>/in/OjnCl</b> on line <b>7</b><br />