remove innitial <p> and </p> tags

[shahzad]

i am using tiny_mce as a text editor for my CMS.

buy now the problem is it add <p> tag with data

 

so while retrieving the data for front end i get an extra space. so there is any why that i can remove <p> </p> from first paragraph.

 

i tried using strip_tags()... but it strip all the others tag like <br> etc etc..

 

 

[vinpkl]

strip_tags($text, '<a>');

 

like this you can mention which tags you want to allow and they will not get striped.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

 

vineet

[Deoctor]

Try using the codelobster as the editor..

the one which u are using an Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor

 

[shahzad]

but in my case sample data is like

 

<p> some data </p>

<p> some data </p><br>

<p> some data </p>

 

so i want <p> tag and <br> tag later in data but i dont want first <p> </p> tag..

[cags]

Not sure it's the best way, but this should work...

 

$ouput = preg_replace(array('#<p>#', '#</p>#'), '', $input, 1);

[shahzad]

i tried this way but it didnt work

$input = $query_data['PageContent'];

$ouput = preg_replace(array('#<p>#', '#</p>#'), '', $input, 1);

echo $output;

 

 

so i tried like this its working fine. but is it the good to do?

 

$outout = str_replace("</p>","<br />",str_replace("<p>", "", "$query_data[PageContent]"));

echo $output;

[cags]

That doesn't do what you asked for. You said you wanted to keep everything but the first set of <p></p> tags, your code removes them all. As far as I can tell the code I gave you, given the example input you gave does exactly what you asked for.