Formatting a .htm page with PHP

Anon

I have a php page where the user uploads (through a form) a .htm page which gets included into another page. The problem is the uploaded .htm page has text in it that I want to remove, like <HEAD><BODY> etc etc.

Is there a way in PHP to remove certain lines of html from a page when it's uploaded? Thanks in advance.

Anon

Use regular expressions...

something like:

preg_replace("/<head>.*</head>/", "", $str);

where $str is the content of the file. That should (untested) delete the head tags and its content. Do similar things with the , <body> tags, etc.

Diego

van__

Though I usually am one to say the the mighty regex is the way to go, I do not recommend that for this case.

There is a function ready to go to handle the regex for you...
<?
$SAFE_TAGS = '<title><meta><a><img><p><b>';
strip_tags($page,$SAFE_TAGS);
?>

Strip tags will remove any and all occurances of <tag> and it's companion </tag> where ever it may occur in a page.
I recommend this as a simple solution for removing unwanted html without having to maintain an unweildy regex.

I use this all the time for first tidying up a page before evaluating with regex for my custom needs as it's simple and allows for rapid customization and repurposing of object codebases.

Anyway, good luck.