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Regex to remove html tags in a block
#1

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
Hi all

I'm trying to remove blocks of html from stings of text.
Once they are removed i place a marker where they were and then run some code before adding them back in.

This regex does it for most html tags apart from image tags <img />

Code:
"|<[^>]+>(.*)</[^>]+>|U"

I also want to try and remove whole blocks of html from a string.


so for example say i have a string that looks like this. This contains links, images and youtube.

Code:
Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Optional Title Here">title for this link reference-style link. This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Title">an example</a> inline link.  Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.

<img src="/media/display/Photo_10.jpg" alt="Photo_10.jpg" />

&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvWQNa1czG4" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvWQNa1czG4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" wmode="transparent" width="425" /&gt;
&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/param></param>&lt;/object&gt;

i would like it to be outputtd like this.


Code:
Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. This is {*0} title for this link reference-style link. This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. This is {*1} inline link.  Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.

{*2}

{*3}


I can't seem to figure it out i get so far with it and then it breaks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time
#2

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
Try using this:
Code:
/\<(.*)\>(.*)\<(.*)\/\>/u
#3

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
Cheers for that

That didn't seem to work.

However this is doing the trick. Can this be optimised?

Code:
$regex = "(<[^>]+>.+?</[^>]+>|<[^>]+/>)si";
#4

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
What do you mean? What you need to optimize here? I'm not actually a Regex master, but I know something about it, so I think that s and i should not be here.
Code:
/<[^>]+>.+?</[^>]+>|<[^>]+/>/u
#5

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
ahh your right about the (i)

I added the s in to treat it newlines as strings and it does the trick on the youtube code

I say optimised as someone may have a more efficient way of doing it that;s less CPU heavy.

Not to worry though for the time being its working.
#6

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17323...54#1732454

Quote: 2587 votes


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#7

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
I don't know is this for you, but try to Google "htmlSQL".
#8

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
Well I'm not parsing html as such i'm just removing tags.

That code works so i'm happy.

Smile
#9

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
What code? :-) htmlSQL? If you want just to remove tags and that's all, just use:
Code:
strip_tags($html);
.
#10

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
yeah i needed to do more then that.

I needed to get the html tags and store them.

otherwise strip_tags would of been the way to go.




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