replace string problem

[ckennerdale]

what I wantto do it to take a string out of a mysql database,and strip allhtml/ email tags that have been inserted in.

So I have text similar to
'<a href=&quot;mailto:foo@foo.com&quot;>foo@foo.com</a>'

and I want it turn into just 'foo@foobar.com'. Obviously the actual email addresses or web addresses will vary.

I have used eregi_replace before with success,but here the stuff that needs to be stripped or replaced will vary.(as emails vary)


#Ultimately what I am trying to acheive is this-

I have an 'add' form into my database which adds special charaters, <br> lines etc.However when I pull down the record into mt 'edit' page , it also pulls down the special formattingI havedone- which is fine,but when I update the record ,it parses through the process again.Thjis results in allmy urls, emails and <br> lines doubling.

So I reckoned that if I strippedthem out for the editing view and then reapplied the formatting to the whole string as I update the database this wouldbe the best courseof action.

Any ideas? Caspar Kennerdale
Senior Media Developer

http://www.thetuckshop.com

http://developer.thetuckshop.com

 

[ckennerdale]

just to confirm,after using eregi_replace instead of having

<a href=&quot;mailto:foo@foo.com&quot;>foo@foo.com</a>'

I am left with 'foo@foo.comfoo@foo.com', so this duplicating needstobe gotrodof

thanks in advance Caspar Kennerdale
Senior Media Developer

http://www.thetuckshop.com

http://developer.thetuckshop.com

 

[luftwalk]

I don't know if this will help, but there's a special function just for removing html AND PHP tags in PHP.
it's called 'strip_tags' and it has two parameters.

The first one is the string you are stripping

and the second one are tags that you don't want stripped.

Example:

new_string = strip_tags(old_string);

Bostjan

 

[vcherubini]

Luftwalk:

Your code is wrong:

new_string = strip_tags(old_string);

should be

$new_string = strip_tags($old_string);

That should work.

-Vic vic cherubini
vikter@epicsoftware.com

http://www.epicsoftware.com

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