Strip <br /> tags between <ul> </ul> in a string.

xconspirisist

$s = "<br /><br />this is a nice string<br /><br />new line...<ul><br /><li>this is a list item</li><br /><li>which has br tags</li><br /></ul> because it just does.";

Basically, i need to strip the <br /> tags that are causing XHTML parse errors from them being within the <ul> tags. Although, dont strip the <br /> tags outside of the <ul> tags. If it helps, the <br /> are in awkward posts as a result of a nl2br on the string...

Hope that makes lots of sense. Any help is greatfully appreciated. 🙂

drew010

edit:

the code i posted below didnt actually work properly, it would lose some contents of the <li>'s so i made it to use a callback.

see how this works out...

<?php

$s = "<br /><br />this is a nice string<br /><br />new line...<ul><br /><li>this is a list item</li><br /><li>which has br tags</li><br /></ul> because it just does.";

echo $s . "\n";

$s = preg_replace_callback('/<ul>(.*?<br \/>.*?)+<\/ul>/i', "replace_cb", $s);

echo $s;

function replace_cb($matches)
{
	return str_replace('<br />', '', $matches[0]);
}

?>

my output is

<br /><br />this is a nice string<br /><br />new line...<ul><br /><li>this is a list item</li><br /><li>which has br tags</li><br /></ul> because it just does.
<br /><br />this is a nice string<br /><br />new line...<ul><li>this is a list item</li><li>which has br tags</li></ul> because it just does.