Strips Url out of <a href string?

homer09001

okay i have my own CMS that stores url to pages in teh database in this format:

<a href=\"http://homer09001.18.forumer.com\">Forum</a>

Problem being i need to strip the

http://homer09001.18.forumer.com

from the whole string?

how can i achieve this?

Weedpacket

a) Don't put it in there to begin with
b) Use str_replace to replace it with an empty string
c) ... depends on how you're doing all this stuff to begin with.

homer09001

ok got this far:


<?php
$url = "<a href=\"http://www.homer09001.forumer.com\">forum</a>";

$vowels = array("<a href=\"","\">"," ","</a>");

$onlyconsonants = str_replace($vowels, "", "$url");

echo $onlyconsonants;

?>

but i cant get rid of the text between "> and </a>

how do i get php to replace anything that is there?

homer09001

this is the output of the above:

http://www.homer09001.forumer.comforum

atokatim

if you are pulling data from the database in this format <a href="http://..........">Text Here</a> and want it only in this format : [url]http://.[/url]........... , why don't you just store it in the database as that, then if you want it a link, do :

<?
$theurl = "http://..........";
$theurlname = explode('"', $theurl);
$theurlname = $theurl[1];
?>
<a href="<? echo $theurl; ?>"><? echo $theurlname; ?></a>

homer09001

because it means i have to edit about 3 files to allow that.

when i should be able to to do it the way i have it now?

atokatim

or.....you can do this...

<?php
$url = "<a href=\"http://www.homer09001.forumer.com\">forum</a>";

$fullurl = explode('"', $url);

$onlyconsonants = $fullurl[1];

echo $onlyconsonants;

?>

homer09001

err that works can you explain what it did please as im trying tot teach my self php at the moment

atokatim

Not a problem.

The explode statement breaks down the string by whatever character you want it to break it down from and puts it into an array. In your case, you needed to break down the url by the " character. When i put $fullurl = explode('"', $url); it made $fullurl and array.

$url = "<a href=\"http://www.homer09001.forumer.com\">forum</a>"; 
$fullurl = explode('"', $url); 

echo $fullurl[0];  //  will return <a href=
echo $fullurl[1];  // will return http://www.homer09001.forumer.com
echo $fullurl[2];  // will return >forum</a>

homer09001

ah i see thank again great help 😃