how do i strip the <html><body> etc.. tags from an included page?

acidbox

I am trying to include another page into my own using the fsockopen() function, along with fputs() and fgets(). The page includes fine, however, it includes all of the other pages <html> <meta> <head> <body> <style> tags etc.... I want to remove those tags and everything in between the <head> and <style> tags so that it fits in with my existing site. Is there an easy way to do this?

PyroX

why open a socket to the page, just use:
$page=file("http://url.com/");

Unless of course you neet to send special stuff like post data or something.

Either way, get the page into an array, and then do:
$page=implode("DMO1",$page);
$page=eregi_replace("<html>","",$page);
$page=eregi_replace("<body","<none",$page);
$page=explode("DMO1",$page);

I am not sure if you will have to escape the <>

After that , the array $page will not contain <html> or <body> tags.

acidbox

i used fsockopen because the page is created dynamically via a POST statement and is transfered over SSL.

ahundiak

Use the strip_tags() function to get rid of all of the html tags. The manual has details.

But it sounds like you might want to keep the html tags in the body section? That will take a bit more work. You could use strpos to find the <body> and </body> tags and then use substr to chop them out.

You can probably do the same for the style elements.

acidbox

I looked at strip_tags, but yes, I want to keep all the tags from the existing site. I could just strip tags from the incoming data, however, I don't want to JUST strip the tags, I want to eliminate everything between some of the tags. Like, I want to remove everything between the incoming <head></head> and <style></style>, but of course, I just want to remove the <html></html> and <body></body> tags without removing the content in between.

diego25

You could use preg_replace:

$html = preg_replace('/<head>.*</head>/', '', $html);

Diego

diego25

Oops, you may have to escape the forward slash in the middle of the regexp.

Diego