how to strip MS html tags

vlad721

I have got a string with contains several <p class=MsoFootnoteText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"> tags and I need to replace them with simple <p>. The problem is that those tags appear then user copy Word document into textarea instead of typing the text in. There is no consistency in <p class...> tags. I tried eregi_replace() and str_replace functions but it did not work.
Any suggestions? Please...

Installer

Something like this should do it:

$offset = 0;
while (($pos_1 = strpos($str, '<p class=', $offset)) !== false) {
    $pos_2 = strpos($str, '>', $pos_1);
    $sub = substr($str, $pos_1, $pos_2 - $pos_1 + 1);
    $new_str = str_replace($sub, '<p>', $str);
    $offset = $pos_2;
}

vlad721

I think it works. For any reason it doesn't replace all the tags. I'll play with the code and find out why.
Thanks a lot.