htmlentites remove

[The Little Guy]

Is there a function that will remove all htmlentites from a string? If not, how can I do that?

[Mchl]

You want to remove them, or decode them?

[The Little Guy]

I want to completely remove them.

 

B.T.W.

 

If anyone has the power could you move this to the "PHP Help" board, thanks!

[Maq]

Are you looking for strip_tags?

[The Little Guy]

well, I used that, but I still have the entities, such as © " etc. in my output.

[.josh]

perhaps you can throw html_entity_decode into the mix?

[Mchl]

You could use preg_replace to remove everything between & and ; (just don't ask me for the pattern for that... I'm regexp challenged)

[Maq]

perhaps you can throw html_entity_decode into the mix?

 

I think he wants to completely remove them not decode them.

 

I want to completely remove them.

[.josh]

perhaps you can throw html_entity_decode into the mix?

 

I think he wants to completely remove them not decode them.

 

I want to completely remove them.

 

well I was thinking more along the lines of decoding, then using something else to remove the decoded stuff, hence the whole "throw it into the mix" thing.

[.josh]

anyways, if you want to go the preg_replace route, you could do

 

$string = "&foo; something blah blah &bar; something";
$string = preg_replace("~&[^;]*;~","",$string);

[The Little Guy]

as I am have been thinking, I think I would like to keep some of the entities. I would like to remove all of the entities that would be useless if you were to do a search, on the database, such as: quot, copy, apos, etc.

 

I would like to keep amp and any other commonly searched for decoded entities.

[.josh]

okay so you either need to make a whitelist of the ones you want to keep, or else the ones you want removed.

[The Little Guy]

I think the "Keep" list would be shorter, So...

 

not sure how I would do that...

[Mchl]

str_replace ?

[Maq]

as I am have been thinking, I think I would like to keep some of the entities. I would like to remove all of the entities that would be useless if you were to do a search, on the database, such as: quot, copy, apos, etc.

 

I would like to keep amp and any other commonly searched for decoded entities.

 

If the purpose of this is for a search, why can't you just decode the entities when you're comparing against the database?

[.josh]

I think the "Keep" list would be shorter, So...

 

not sure how I would do that...

 

well, for instance, you can do something like this:

 

$keepers = array('(amp)','(bar)');
$string = "&foo; something blah & blah &bar; something &blah;";
$keep = implode ("|",$keepers);
$string = preg_replace("~&(?!".$keep.")[^;]*;~","",$string);