I'm showing categories with this codes. Normally there is no problem.

```
<?php
$categories = wp_list_categories('current_category=1&hide_empty=0&title_li=&echo=0&link_before=<span>&link_after=</span>');
$categories = preg_replace('/title=\"(.*?)\"/','',$categories);
echo $categories;
?>

```

But i want to wrap current category's text into `<span>` tag for showing current category image.

In short:
`<a href="#">Home</a>` to `<a href="#"><span>Home</span></a>`.

How i can do it with PHP?

Thanks.