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removing a tag

Thread begun 2/05/2016 7:43 am by Jamie | Last modified 2/15/2016 12:09 pm by Ray Borduin | 2200 views | 7 replies |

Jamie

removing a tag

Hey Ray

If I wanted to remove the styling soemthing like this: <strong style="line-height: 25.6px;"></strong>

how would I modify

<?php
function convertString($string) {
$retStr = $string;
$retStr = str_replace(array("<br />","<br>","<p>","</p>","<h1>","</h1>","<h2>","</h2>","<blockquote>","</blockquote>","<strong>","</strong>","<em>","</em>","<u>","</u>","&nbsp;"), "", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/\<a(.*)\>(.*)\<\/a\>/iU", "$2", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/\<span(.*)\>(.*)\<\/span\>/iU", "$2", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/\<u(.*)\>(.*)\<\/u\>/iU", "$2", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/\<h1(.*)\>(.*)\<\/h1\>/iU", "$2", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/\<strong(.*)\>(.*)\<\/strong\>/iU", "$2", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i", " ", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/<h1[^>]+\>/i", " ", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/<h2[^>]+\>/i", " ", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/<h3[^>]+\>/i", " ", $retStr);
$retStr = preg_replace("/<p[^>]+\>/i", " ", $retStr);
return $retStr;
}
?>



As you can see I have $retStr = preg_replace("/\<strong(.*)\>(.*)\<\/strong\>/iU", "$2", $retStr); but it isnt removing the the tag

cheers

Jamie

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

The issue is that you are removing the "</strong>" tag above in the str_replace, so the preg_replace() won't work because it depends on both the open and close tags to be found before it removes them.

You could try moving the str_replace() to the end like:

php:
<?php

function convertString($string) {
    
$retStr $string;
    
$retStr preg_replace("/\<a(.*)\>(.*)\<\/a\>/iU""$2"$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/\<span(.*)\>(.*)\<\/span\>/iU""$2"$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/\<u(.*)\>(.*)\<\/u\>/iU""$2"$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/\<h1(.*)\>(.*)\<\/h1\>/iU""$2"$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/\<strong(.*)\>(.*)\<\/strong\>/iU""$2"$retStr);
    
$retStr preg_replace("/<img[^>]+\>/i"" "$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/<h1[^>]+\>/i"" "$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/<h2[^>]+\>/i"" "$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/<h3[^>]+\>/i"" "$retStr);
        
$retStr preg_replace("/<p[^>]+\>/i"" "$retStr);
    
$retStr str_replace(array("<br />","<br>","<p>","</p>","<h1>","</h1>","<h2>","</h2>","<blockquote>","</blockquote>","<strong>","</strong>","<em>","</em>","<u>","</u>","&nbsp;"), ""$retStr);
    return 
$retStr;
}
?>



That may work, but I'd suggest using the built in php function strip_tags() instead of this one.

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Jamie

gotcha. thanks

Jamie

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Jamie

I've seen that you can exclude some tags from the strip_tags function (eg $content=strip_tags($content,"<b><strong><em><i><p><br><ul><li><ol>");) but unsure how to incorporate that into <?php echo strip_tags($Noticeboard->getColumnVal("NoticeboardContent")); ?>

I am am wanting to strip all tags except <a href>....

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

<?php echo strip_tags($Noticeboard->getColumnVal("NoticeboardContent"),"<a>"); ?>

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Jamie

brilliant thanks...and am assuming that if you wanted other tags to be excluded you just add them with a comma separting? eg ("NoticeboardContent"),"<a>","<br>"); ?>

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It looks like you add them right together without commas like "<a><br>"

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thanks Ray

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