Need some help with regex ...

[krembo99]

Hello people (And regex gurus)!

I am working on some project now, and I have a problem which needs regex, I really need some help ..

 

Right now, WP is printing this source :

 

<!--Start krembo99 horiz navigation bar-->
<ul id="menu" class="sf-menu">	
<li class="cat-item cat-item-6"><a href="http://www.xxxx.org/wp/?cat=6" title="blabla">Buzziiii</a></li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-7"><a href="http://www.xxxx.org/wp/?cat=7" title="blabla">Competitionsornot</a>
<ul class='children'>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-14"><a href="http://www.xxxx.org/wp/?cat=14" title="blabla">tesdrtf</a></li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-13"><a href="http://www.xxxxxx.org/wp/?cat=13" title="blabla">tesr566</a></li></ul></li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-8"><a href="http://www.xxxxxx.org/wp/?cat=8" title="blabla">Events</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-11"><a href="http://www.xxxxxx.org/wp/?cat=11" title="Vblabla">Featured Articles</a>
</li>
<li class="cat-item cat-item-1"><a href="http://www.xxxxxx.org/wp/?cat=1" title="blabla">Uncategorized</a>
</li>
</ul>
<!--End pages navigation-->

 

I need to clean the class attribute (just wipe it off)

which means intead of (for example)

<li class="cat-item cat-item-8">

 

I need just empty

 

<li>

 

or

 

<li="myclass">

 

the first option is better....

 

 

I tried to use :

 

<ul id="menu" class="sf-menu"><?php
    $cool_cats = wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&title_li=');
    $cool_cats = preg_replace('/\<li class\="(.*?)\"/','',$cool_cats);
    echo $cool_cats;
    ?>
</ul>

 

but it does not seem to work.

Or better put, I just do not have an idea of how to use it ...

I know for you regex gods this looks increadibly easy, but for me it is like a foreign language (although I develop php apps and plugins also ..but I am mainly css and wp person, some PHP , but not regex ...

[.josh]

$string = preg_replace('~<li[^>]*>~i','<li>',$string);

[krembo99]

Thanks you very much for the quick reply,

however, I am affraid the function for some reason does not work well.

The result of the source code remains the same, somehow It can not find the pattern...

[.josh]

well then you are probably not using the right variable that holds the source. Or your source isn't what you think it is.  Or you're echoing the wrong var.  My example used $string.  There's no reason why that pattern wouldn't match and replace your li tags.