Changing Tags

[zimmo]

I am using some old code etc.. and need to get the data into a nice xhtml compliant format for mobile. Now the issue I have is with the bold tags and italic tags.

 

I want to replace them with strong and for the italics to strip it out completely.

 

Here is what I have tried:

$string = $abstract;

$abstractrpl = strtr($string, 'b>', 'strong>'); //

 

Now the problem is, it does change them, but I dont get the correct tag, it is showing as:

 

<st

 

So I only get the first 2 characters?

 

[Zane]

what's wrong with str_replace

[zimmo]

Have fixed it

 

$abstract = str_replace('b>', 'strong>',$abstract); //

 

 

One other thing, how can I also get it to change other characters within the same declaration? So to change not only the bold tags but also the italic tags?

[Zane]

this is what's known as a regex situation.. whereas you'd use the regex equivalent to str_replace; which is preg_replace

 

$abstract = preg_replace('b|i>', 'strong>',$abstract); //

[zimmo]

Thanks for that. One other thing, I am unsure how to format the date to D/M/Y

 

Here is the code for the date:

echo ("<h4>".utf8_encode($start)." ".utf8_encode($finish)."</h4>");

 

I am not sure how you do this with the encoding?

 

The start is a date and the finish is a date?

[ChemicalBliss]

What is actually in these variables $start and $date, is it a standard m/d/y representation or a unix timestamp?

 

-cb-

[zimmo]

Hi the date is: 2010-07-10 just the normal date.

 

THanks

[ChemicalBliss]

Before you utf8_encode them, run a custom function on them, eg:

echo ("<h4>".utf8_encode(stringdate_format($start,"d/m/y"))." ".utf8_encode(stringdate_format($finish,"d/m/y"))."</h4>");

 

The function would look something like:

function stringdate_format($string, $format){
$timestamp = strtotime($string);
return date($format, $timestamp);
}

 

Hope this Helps,

-cb-