Stripping custom tags from code?

[delphi123]

Hi there,

 

I'm struggling with a simple script that'll strip cusom tags (all contained in { }).

 

These tags are used in news articles, to do things like redirect/display modules etc.  On the site frontpage I'm wanting to pull the text through as an intro to articles, but I just want it to display as plain text - that means stripping all html and custom tags before it's brough through (ie everything within < > and { })

 

 

I'd appreciate any advice people have on the best way to do this - I've been writing specific php to tackle this:

 

Code:

      $sbd_start = strpos(strtolower($row->introtext),'{');

      $sbd_end = strpos(strtolower($row->introtext),'}',$sbd_start);

      $sbd_string = substr($row->introtext,$sbd_start,($sbd_end-$sbd_start));

      $intro = str_replace($sbd_string,' ',$intro);

 

 

But I figured there may be a cleverer way (maybe an inbuilt php function that forces data to show only plain text?)

 

Have also tried preg_replace, but could figure out the way to do that efficiently (again, don't know if there's a standard preg_replace snippet gurus use to get rid of all the standard tags? Also saw strip_tags, but (to the best of my knowledge) this only works on html and I can't specify other tags?

 

Any help much appreciated!

[Axeia]

{ and } are plain text. So just combine what you have with the strip_tags function and you're done.

 

You could try writing a big regular expression, but the advantage?

1) Build in functions usually are a ton faster then a regex

2) If you need to adept the code in the future, do you want to decipher your huge regular expression?

[thebadbad]

Use strip_tags() for the HTML and this regex for the custom tags:

 

<?php
$str = preg_replace('~{[^}]*}~', '', $str);
?>