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regex string lowwer

$str='<taxonomy alias="Abnormal dreams" name="Abnormal dreams" taxonomy_type="adverse_events" content=""/>';

$text = preg_replace_callback('/alias="(.*?)"/im',"toLower",$str);
echo $text;
function toLower($matches){
  return 'alias="'.str_replace(' ','-',strtolower($matches[1])).'"';
}