IMG tag

Kame

Is there some code that you can write to ignore any <img> tags?

diego25

PHP ignores <img> tags...So exactly what has to ignore the <img> tags? If you want the browser to ignore image tags, change the '<img' into '<img' using str_replace.

Diego

laserlight

hmm... do you mean like the user submits text in a form, then you want to parse the text for any image tags?

Generally to ensure that html tags do not get treated as such, you can use htmlspecialchars()
For image tag alone, probably some regex parsing, or something like str_replace('<img', '<img', $text)

Kame

What I ment to say is if there is any way that the browser will not process any img tags?

What I'm trying to do is make printable versions of my pages. Normally, they have images in them, but I want to ignore them in certain cases.

laserlight

then use strip_tags()

Kame

How can I use strip tags on an entire page instead of a variable?

laserlight

You place the entire page in a variable.

Kame

The problem is that I have PHP code and HTML in the file. I want to take the interpreted result of the page and strip it of IMG tags.

Weedpacket

It sounds like you have two questions:

How do I get an interpreted PHP/HTML page into PHP to work on it?
How do I strip said page of its <img> tags?

The laziest way I can think of doing it is to use the output buffering functions ([man]ob_start[/man] and its ilk) and include() to run the page and collect the result into a variable; and then to use regular expressions to search and destroy the <img> tags in that variable's contents. After that, you'd only need to echo the variable's contents for an <img>-less page.

Haven't got the means to test anything, so I'm not going to write all the code out, but

$page_to_make_printer_friendly = 'something.php';
ob_start();
include($page_to_make_printer_friendly);
$interpreted_page = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

$imgless_page = preg_replace('/<img.*?>/is', $interpreted_page);

echo $imgless_page;

Seems good enough to me for a first approximation.

Kame

Thanks. I'll try that.