Weeding out part of an RSS feed

[czheng]

Hey folks. Newcomer here.

I've spent the last few days modifying an RSS Reader script I downloaded somewhere, and I've got it running almost exactly how I'd like it. The last thing I'd like to do is, for the following feed([url=http://ma.gnolia.com/rss/full/people/czheng]http://ma.gnolia.com/rss/full/people/czheng[/url]), remove from each ITEM everything from (and including) [code]<b>Tags:[/code] up to (but not including) [code]<description>[/code].

I'm guessing it would be something like: [code]$rss_feed = preg_replace('**what goes here?**', '', $rss_feed);[/code]
but of course I need the pattern.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

P.S. How might I also strip out all the following tags? [code]<b></b><p></p>[/code]

FYI, I looked at this thread ([url=http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99383.0.html]http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99383.0.html[/url]) but it didn't get me the result I wanted...

[Wildbug]

[quote author=czheng link=topic=100642.msg397542#msg397542 date=1152937738]

... remove from each ITEM everything from (and including) [code]<b>Tags:[/code] up to (but not including) [code]<description>[/code].[/quote]

Try this expression:

[code]/(<b>Tags:.*?)(?=<description>)/s[/code]

The first set of parentheses capture the enclosed expression.  The ".*?" construct means "any character, zero or more, ungreedy."  The second parenthetical expression is a lookahead assertion, meaning that the regex engine looks for the previous part of the expression, followed by "<description>" without including that in the result.

[quote author=czheng link=topic=100642.msg397542#msg397542 date=1152937738]
P.S. How might I also strip out all the following tags? [code]<b></b><p></p>[/code]
[/quote]

And this:

[code]preg_replace('/<[bp]\/?>/','',$text);[/code]

[czheng]

Like a dummy, I didn't pay close enough attention and didn't realize I was going for the CLOSING description tag, not the opening one. The following code works now:

[code] $rss_feed = preg_replace("#Tags:(.*?)(?=<\/description>)#", "", $rss_feed);
[/code]

And I wasn't able to remove the (p) and (b) tags without decoding the HTML. Once I did that, everything was set.

Thanks again.