Find HTML and replace with different html?

[Spinethetic]

I've seemed to gotten myself into a bit of a pickle when I decided to use sIRF technique as (title) headings on my pages.

The problem arises when I attempt to use the 'printer friendly' link to print out the article, of course flash content be printed, and thus when a visitor prints something out ... the ARTICLE NAME is gone!

EXAMPLE - click 'Printer Friendly'

I hope there is a snippet of code I could put in my printpage.php that basically looks for

<br /><object data="images/titles.swf?isSubtitle=0&amp;myTitle=Look for Truth no matter where it takes you" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="30" width="610"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"></object><br />

and parses it as:

<h2>Look for Truth no matter where it takes you</h2>

So that the article title prints out A-OK.🆒

Best Regards
~Spine 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

Well just doing a simple text replace could be done like so:

$pattern = '@<br /><object data="images/titles.swf?isSubtitle=0&amp;myTitle=([^"]+)" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="30" width="610"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"></object><br />@';
$replace = '<h2>$1</h2>';

$data = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $data);

where $data is the HTML source of the page.

Note, however, that any change in structure would break the regexp pattern (even a line break before the OBJECT entity). Alternatively, you could just not use Flash and instead either use normal text or a PHP script to generate an image containing the text.