Formatting a .htm page with PHP 1

DeepBlerg · Mar 21, 2002

I have a php page where the user uploads (through a form) a .htm page which gets included into another page. The problem is the uploaded .htm page has text in it that I want to remove, like <HTML><HEAD><BODY> etc etc.

Is there a way in PHP to remove certain lines of html from a page when it's uploaded? Thanks in advance.

gerrygerry · Mar 21, 2002

There are lots of ways to do this! Use a guess you could use a regex function to remove these tags... I'll see what I can dig up. -gerrygerry
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gerrygerry · Mar 21, 2002

On second thought, I think it would just be easier to do a string replace on the page before you display it... just read the file into a string, then do this:

Code:

// Fill this array with any thing you want to remove

Code:

$bad_tags = array(&quot;

Code:

<HTML>

Code:

&quot;, 
                  &quot;

Code:

<TITLE>

Code:

&quot;, 
                  &quot;

Code:

</TITLE>

Code:

&quot;, 
                  &quot;

Code:

</HTML>

Code:

&quot;
                  );
$page_source = str_replace($page_source, &quot;&quot;, $bad_tags);

This is the quick and easy way to do it... i dunno how many tags you plan on parsing and this was easier than anything else.

It may not be as fancy as what you were hoping for, but hey, it works, doesn't it? LOL

Good luck! -gerrygerry
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spookie · Mar 22, 2002

hello

u can use strip_tags function.

$text = strip_tags($text,[allowablwe html tags]);

but beware of the fatc that it will strip everything between the tags < and > so it might be some text by the user like <here is my text>

hope it will help u

spookie

gerrygerry · Mar 22, 2002

Very similar to my solution spookie, but I think my solution would be better as far as preventing any accidental deletes.

Plus, it's easier to enter the tags DeepBlerg wants to remove than it is to write the tags to keep!

Good luck! -gerrygerry
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spookie · Mar 22, 2002

yes gerrygerry
i completely agree with u.
just posted the message for the anothere alternative thats all.

cheers

spookie

spookie · Mar 22, 2002

yes gerrygerry
i completely agree with u.
just posted the message for the another alternative thats all.

cheers

spookie

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