Eraseing partial text.

kmmoslo

I am new to php and also new to other scripting languages.

I have downloaded a script to fetch news from other sites. I only want the headlines in the news an therefore want to erase the partial text.

One example is the html code:
<DIV CLASS="description">this is an example of the text i will remove.<br><br></DIV>

I have tried to use the php code:
$value = eregi_replace( "DIV CLASS=\"description\"[^>]*>", "", $value );

This only removes the <DIV CLASS=...></DIV> but leaves the text alone.

It would be nice if anyone could help me with this problem.

andrewtayloruk

This might not be the best solution but it's certainly easiest. You've managed to remove the <div tags> So you've got a string of text you can substring:

$string = substr($string, 0, 30);

Now $string contains the first 30 characters.

Andrew