[Resolved] ereg_ / str_ replace question

[perpetualshaun]

Let's say I have a long, complex program that writes a whole bunch of HTML code for me. I have already programmed in alot of CSS into the HTML that this program generates and 9 times out of 10 I want to use that same classes and ids.

But is there a str or ereg replace function that I can use to strip out all the CSS? For example, I would like to have some type of function like this...

$new_string = ereg_replace(" class=\"*\"| id=\"*\"| style=\"*\"", "", $orig_string);

The * in these cases would be multiple values. There are just several diffent titles of the cases and ids that I'm using in this application, so if I have to I can do the ereg_replace for each SPECIFIC title, but is there a way to write some sort of catch-all function like this?

Thanks,
Shaun

[rehfeld]

yes definately. if your looking for some example regex patterns, you will need to be more specific.

i would really recomend doing this yourself though. this place helped me out a lot.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

but maybe you are doing this the hard way.

css is powerfull, and maybe you are overlooking the (possibly) best way to do this.

instead of replacing
class="redtext"
with
class="bluetext"

maybe you should just define the class as
class="coloredtext" and then switch the entire stylesheet.

that is afterall, one of the most powerfull benefits of css. and imo, how it should be done.

i usually use 2 or sometimes more stylesheets. ill have one w/ styles that are highly likely to be need or used site wide. then i will have smaller individual stylesheets on a per page basis, or whatever fits the bill. but that way i can have the same class names, yet change thier appearance by switching the stylesheet if needed