Expression to remove HTML Comments 1

[JimFL]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to use the Preg_replace expression to take out HTML comment tags?

I would like to remove all tags like the one below and all the content within it.

<!-- comments within the tag -->

Can anybody help?

 

[JimFL]

Can I just add. The reason I am trying to do this is because I am using an HTMLAREA object that is passing some rather nasty code comments through to my posted parameter that I need to remove before it goes into my database. Therefore I should be able to remove it from the posted string?

 

[vbkris]

preg_replace("/<!-- [.*] -->/U","",$TheString);

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[JimFL]

Thanks alot vbkris. I'll give that a go..

 

[JimFL]

I dont know why the expression is not working for me?? But If I output the str to HTML it still apears to be a comment. Have you any ideas why it is not working?

 

[vbkris]

can i have the code???

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[vbkris]

oops, here is the new one:
/<!--(.*)-->/

change the [] to ()...

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[JimFL]

Thanks again.. I should have picked up on that one. One day I get the hang of Preg_replace expressions,

 

[JBaileys]

I was able to add a comment by adding the code
<!--(comment)-->

In my example, it is a static comment.

 

[vbkris]

cheers

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[Olavxxx]

In case someone comes in here and wants to strip tags away from theire html code, they might want to read up on strip_tags().

If they only want to strip one tag though, the samples above might be a easier way to go, as then they dont have to define all the tags which are allowed.

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[DRJ478]

Another note:

The expression will not only strip out HTML comments but also Apache SSI directives (which are syntactically like HTML comments but have a # after the opening:
<!--#