[RESOLVED] How to get rid of annoying tags

ppowell

<textarea><?

if ($result[0]->resume) echo str_replace("'", '&#039;', htmlentities(preg_replace('/<(br|p)[\s\t]*\/?>/i', "\n", $result[0]->resume)))

?></textarea>

I am trying to strip out all occurrences of or tags within inputted text inside <textarea> tags. This, for some bizarre reason, sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work, it will strip out these tags for one person's resume; it will leave them untouched in another resume.

Does anyone know of a consistent means of stripping these tags out and replacing them with newline/line-feed instead?

Thanx
Phil

devinemke

do you want to strip just those tags or all tags? if you want to strip all tags then use [man]strip_tags[/man].

ppowell

No, just and tags.. everything else I assume will be covered by either strip_tags() or htmlentities()

Phil

devinemke

ppowell wrote:
No, just and tags.. everything else I assume will be covered by either strip_tags() or htmlentities()

huh? do you want to allow any tags at all? [man]strip_tags[/man] will remove all of them. you can even specify which tags you want to allow as the second argument to the function.

ppowell

That would defeat the purpose of what I want to do, unless I'm just not following your logic. What I want is to strip out all tags and then replace any occurrence of or with a hard return (when reinserted into the db it will be nl2br() of course )

I guess I need something like "br2nl()"

Phil

devinemke

$string = 'this string has <br> tags and <p> tags in it as well as <i>other</i> <b>tags</b>';

$string = str_replace('<br>', "\n", $string);
$string = str_replace('<p>', "\n", $string);
$string = strip_tags($string);

ppowell

Sorry but that didn't consistently get rid of tags, as some resumes still had that tag embedded even after a string of str_replace()

if ($result[0]->resume) echo str_replace("'", '&#039;', htmlentities(strip_tags(str_replace('<br>', "\n", str_replace('<p>', "\n", str_replace('<br />', "\n", str_replace('</p', "\n", $result[0]->resume))))));

Phil

devinemke

try it this way:

$tags = array('<br>', '<br />', '<p>', '</p>');
$result[0]->resume = str_replace($tags, "\n", $result[0]->resume);
$result[0]->resume = strip_tags($result[0]->resume);
$result[0]->resume = htmlentities($result[0]->resume);

ppowell

Ok did it EXACTLY as you posted.. to no avail, the tags are stil there! 🙁

Phil

devinemke

post an example $result[0]->resume where the code is not working

ppowell

I can only post a snippet of it, it's illegal for me to post government-controlled data in its entirety that would violate privacy laws, blah blah blah..

OBJECTICE
 
Seeking Internship position that will utilize my strong

Phil

devinemke

this works as expected on my box (no br tags):

$string = 'OBJECTICE
<br />
Seeking Internship position that will utilize my strong';

$tags = array('<br>', '<br />', '<p>', '</p>'); 
$string = str_replace($tags, "\n", $string); 
$string = strip_tags($string); 
$string = htmlentities($string);

echo $string;

ppowell

I'm using PHP 4.3.8 on RHEL 4 with Apache 2.0.54 - maybe it's a version thing, but the tags are not always stripped out. On some people it is, on others it's not.. the MySQL 4.1.12 database table field "resume" is a text datatype field, if that makes a difference.

Phil

ppowell

Ok I got it, it was a bit complicated but it turns out that $POST['resume'] existed so it was echoing that instead of $result[$i]->resume, hence why I'd sometimes see changes (whenever $POST['resume'] did not yet exist) and sometimes not.

Phil