[SOLVED] Getting rid of HTML tags

[soycharliente]

I tried searching the forums for this, but I can't find the right words to type in and not get back a bunch of unrelated stuff.

Maybe this has already been asked, if so, please point me there.

 

I'm trying to grab just the text from a db entry for a blog. I don't want any HTML formatting. It may have line breaks, list tags, image tags, etc.

 

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If this is a sample post.

 

Here's a line break.

 

<img src="img/image.jpg" style="float:left;" /> And skip over the image to get this text.

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Make sense?

[soycharliente]

I tried writing something, but it doesn't seem to be working. Nothing is happening. The test string comes back exactly the same.

 

<?php
$content = $row["post_content"];
while (strpos($content, "<") !== FALSE) {
$start = strpos($content, "<");
$end = strpos($content, ">", $start);
$content = substr_replace($content, "", $start, $end-$start);
}
echo $content;
?>

[nadeemshafi9]

strip_tags removes PHP and HTML it may remove \n and \r

[nadeemshafi9]

while (strpos($content, "<") !== FALSE) { thats somne crazy coding technique son

[bpops]

Your code looks good to me... have you tried echoing your start and end variables to see if they appear in the right places?

[nadeemshafi9]

try ....

 

$content = strip_tags($row["post_content"]);

 

echo $content;

[nadeemshafi9]

Your code looks good to me... have you tried echoing your start and end variables to see if they appear in the right places?

 

hold on your right it is leagle i checke dit sorry, i very rarley check memory for memory thats very deep

 

 

saying ">" !== blah is wrong because they are identical but not the same thing maybe ?

[bpops]

Your code looks good to me... have you tried echoing your start and end variables to see if they appear in the right places?

 

im not sure but from my experience not that i have much !== is ileagle or am i wrong ?

 

Good point

[haku]

Not illegal at all. It means not equal to, and doesn't just test for value, but also for type.

 

http://www.devguru.com/technologies/php/6050.asp

[soycharliente]

Thank you all. I didn't know about strip_tags() which was very helpful. No need to reinvent the wheel.

 

This is what I ended up using:

<?php
$content = substr(strip_tags($row["post_content"]), 0, 75);
echo "<p>{$thedate} <a href=\"{$guid}\" title=\"Read {$title}\">{$title}</a> {$content}[...]</p>";
?>