PHP search string and if <ul> is in string insert </p> before <ul>

woocha

Hi guys,

I have a script that pulls info from a db and I need to determine if the db field contains ul for this I used:

if(strstr($row['body'],ul)){}

but now I need to know how to insert </p> before the ul is read from the db. I am doing this so that the page validates. I DO NOT want to alter the db field. I just want to change the string before it is displayed to the browser.

Does anyone have any ideas?

thanks guys and gals

sneakyimp

If you want to replace <ul> and <UL> and also <ul class="some_class"> then [man]preg_replace[/man] is your friend. If it's always going to be just <ul> then you can use [man]str_replace[/man].

$row['body'] = preg_replace('/(<ul[^>]*>)/i', '</p>$1', $row['body']);

woocha

hey thanks for the tip man...I didn't even think about the preg_replace....thanks man

Ilyes

You may also use strpos !

Horizon88

Ilyes;10885134 wrote:
You may also use strpos !

Actually, you can't. strpos() only returns the position of the match within the string, it doesn't do any sort of replacing.