removing boldtext from included content

[forzatio]

Hi there, Im getting some rss feeds to display on my site however the source rss contains bold text which I can't get away.

I tried to make a stylesheet that would set the text to normal but this doesn;t work, also I tried to put something like this in the echo:

 

<p class=\"nobold\">$description</p>   but still I get bold text.

This is my code.


<p class="nobold">
<?php include ('includewebsite.php'); ?>
</p>

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {

$description = str_ireplace('badword','goodword',$item[description]);
$url =		$item[link];
$title =	str_ireplace('badword','goodword',$item[title]);




echo "$title<br><br><p class=\"nobold\">$description</p><br><br>";
}

[Jessica]

for your stylesheet idea, did you try

b{ text-weight: normal; }

 

That should work.

[forzatio]

I tried it but it keeps being bold,  the rss has bold with

<b>

for the words  in it's source, would there be a way to filter that tag out.

[Jessica]

So if you add the style I posted it should change any bold text to normal.

If the only tag in it is the bold tag, you can use strip_tags(). Or you can use strip_tags() and allow br, p, etc.

[forzatio]

Ok I tried it this way in my includefile which retrieves the rss.

 

in this case, it should remove the tag from the rss it needs to retrieve.

 

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {

$description = str_ireplace('badword','goodword',strip_tags($item[description], '<b>'));

 

The CSS font weight didn't work too.

[Jessica]

the second argument of strip_tags() is allowed tags. You told it to strip every tag BUT

<b>

.

 

What are you replacing with str_ireplace?

[corbin]

you could always just feed the entire rss page into a variable then do

$var = str_replace("<b>", "", $var);

$var = str_replace("</b>", "", $var);

[forzatio]

the second argument of strip_tags() is allowed tags. You told it to strip every tag BUT

<b>

.

 

What are you replacing with str_ireplace?

 

I tried it like this now and it seems to work now.

 

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {

$description = str_ireplace('badword','goodword',strip_tags($item[description], '<b>'));

 

They didn't use bold

<b>

with that tag.

I use the str_ireplace (another thing) to replace some words from the RSS feed.

[Jessica]

You're not making any sense. If you want to remove the bold tag, you can't put it as the second argument of strip_tags().

If they didn't use the b tag, what tag did they use to make it bold? strong? Either way, just use strip_tags() with NO second argument.

[forzatio]

You're not making any sense. If you want to remove the bold tag, you can't put it as the second argument of strip_tags().

If they didn't use the b tag, what tag did they use to make it bold? strong? Either way, just use strip_tags() with NO second argument.

ah yeah, in my case it's a totally coincidence, so I allowed '<b>'  as a tag, while all other tags are now just stripped out.. the only tag in the RSS was

<b>

  so it just solved the problem with total coincidence.

 

how would I normally strip out the

<b>

tag and allow all other ?

I just had some luck there

[Jessica]

just use str_replace() to replace '<b>' and '</b>' with ''