Replace everything between param1 and param2

dougmcc1

How do I delete everything between  to get ? Everything in  changes to something new everytime so I'm unable to do this:
str_replace("",$var,$template);

I need to do something like 'replace everything between  with $var'

Thanks.

dougmcc1

Would it be something like:
str_ireplace("", $var, $template); ?

superwormy

Either regular expressions ( ereg(), ereg_replace(), preg_replace() ) of a fancy string matching function, like the StrBetweenStr function:

http://www.uglyslug.com/uglyslug_PHP/#StrBetweenStr
http://www.uglyslug.com/uglyslug_PHP/Func/StrBetweenStr.func.phps

dougmcc1

Thanks superwormy. Now my question is, what is this doing:
http://www.uglyslug.com/uglyslug_PHP/Func/StrBetweenStr.func.phps

I'm still pretty new at this and there are no comments in there.

superwormy

Its finding a string between to other strings. :-)

It finds a start tag position, finds the end tag position, gets the stuff inbetween, and keeps doing it until either there arn't any more matches, or $number ( the 4th param ) is reached. For instance, to find the bolded words in this HTML:


<?php

$html = " this is my text and this <b> is in bold </b> but this isn't ";

$array = StrBetweenStr ($html, "<b>", "</b>");

print_r ($array);
// prints " is in bold "

?>

dougmcc1

Yep, that's exactly what I need. Only it needs to look through an HTML document, not a string.

superwormy

Well, the only way to look through an HTML document with PHP is to load it into a string... so I don't think that'll be a problem :-)

fsockopen()
fopen()
fread()
fgets()
fclose()
file()

Those functins might help you to grab the HTML page and load it into a string.

dougmcc1

Ok, thanks for your help. I'll see what I can do.