Removing section of text

[Canman2005]

Hi all

 

Wonder if someone can help

 

What I have is text for each page of my site which is stored in a sql table, to print the text on the pages I use

 

<?php
print $row['content'];
?>

 

The following is an example of the type of content stored

 

------------------------------------------------

 

Welcome to the contact page

 

*C*

page check

*C*

 

Please use the navigation bar above

 

------------------------------------------------

 

What I want to do is to remove the section of the content which is between and including

 

*C*

page check

*C*

 

So it would just print the content as

 

------------------------------------------------

 

Welcome to the contact page

 

Please use the navigation bar above

 

------------------------------------------------

 

Can this be done?

 

Any help would be great

 

Thanks in advance

 

Dave

[marcus]

$bad = "*C*\npage check\n*C*";
$txt = str_replace($bad,"",$row['content']);
echo $txt;

 

No idea how your code is formatted, but you get the point.

[Canman2005]

Thanks for that, but what I meant was that it would replace anything between

 

*C*

 

So it would basically use them as tags, I could change them all to

 

*C-start*

 

and

 

*C-end*

 

so that it knows what the start tag is and what the end tag is

 

can this be done in this case?

 

Thanks again

 

Dave

[marcus]

Um.

 

$string = "*C* your text here *C*";
$explode = explode("*C*",$string);
$text = $explode[1];

[Canman2005]

Sorry, might not be making much sense.

 

Basically I want to get rid of everything that is held between two tags, so if the page content was

 

-----------------------

Welcome to the page

 

*C*

click here

*C*

----------------------

 

then it would strip out the following

 

*C*

click here

*C*

 

and simply print

 

--------------------------

welcome to the page

--------------------------

 

does the make any sense?

 

Thanks

[marcus]

Lol.

 

$string = "*C* your text here *C*";
$explode = explode("*C*",$string);
$text = $explode[1];
echo str_replace($text,"",$string);

 

that would remove "your text here"

[Canman2005]

Cool

 

Thanks

 

Is there a way to firstly remove the *C* so that it isnt printed and secondly, can be it be changed so that the start tag looks like

 

*C-start*

 

and the end tag would look like

 

*C-end*

 

Thanks again

 

Dave

[Masna]

$content = str_replace("*C*", "", $content);

 

and secondly, can be it be changed so that the start tag looks like

 

*C-start*

 

and the end tag would look like

 

*C-end*

 

What does it matter; you're removing it all.

[Canman2005]

Sorry, just for easy reference really.