strip_tags behaviour with php files as opposed to html

Witchy

Hi folks,

Having some fun with strip_tags here. I've been using an old version of Red Tempest search (now gone, it seems) on one of my sites for ages now, but in the summer I redesigned the whole site from standard html to PHP to make maintenance and updates easier. Everything is now streamlined and very easy to change.

But! RedTempest used strip_tags before inserting the plain text into the database, but now that I'm using PHP things seem to break rather a lot. Is there a version that works on the PHP parsed version of the page rather than the raw file? If I save the page source from a browser and run strip_tags on that it's fine, but on the php file itself it's b0rked.

Sample lines from php file - these appear to break strip_tags so the first line is sort of parsed but the 2nd is ignored:

<a href="<?php print "/scripts/picshow.php?image=grandstandifs.jpg&folder=".$cwd."&back=".$home ?>">Grandstand Invaders From Space </a>game, boxed perfect with instructions.<br />
<a href="scramble.php">Grandstand Scramble</a>, boxed with instructions and in excellent nick.<br />

You can guess what the html equivalent is 🙂

I'm not a n00b but there's a fine line between what's right and what works!

Trying to get my head round regexps ATM 😃

weekender

hi witchy

i think what your trying to do is get the output of a script into your db (or whatever).

what you can do is this...

//the file to have its output added to the db
$file = "path/to/file.php";

//var to store the output
$outputted_data = "";

//start buffering output
ob_start();

//include (parse) the file (remember, output goes into buffer not to client)
include "$file";

//get the contents of the buffer
$outputted_data = ob_get_contents();

//empty the buffer and stop buffering
ob_end_clean();

the variable $outputted_data will now contain the output that should have been sent to the browser (but wasnt). This can be used in your search.

adam

Witchy

That works great for a single file with an absolute pathname so all I need to do now is make it work for the whole site! For some reason it barfs after half a dozen files.

Yer a star 😃