regular expression help

[jansky]

to all guru

i'm not good at regular expression nor even created script of it. however i have a little problem..

how do i remove the html tags but get the property value

like
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">sdafsdfadsf</span></p> <-- as the text

then the output using regular expression, preg_match or preg-replace will be

sdafsdfadsf as the text
and the color will be store in variable like $forecolor = "#ff0000";
and of course not to mention if the user select font
so it will be $fontface = "Arial";
$fontsize = "";
alignment

etc

and of course i will replace the Carriage or Enter key to \r\n

i need this because i will be using imagick and WYSWYG as editor

your help is highly appreciated

thank you

[nrg_alpha]

I'm not going to fully spoon feed you.. but here is a regex to get you started:

$str = '<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">sdafsdfadsf</span></p>';
preg_match('{#(?P<color>[a-f0-9]{6})[^>]+>(?P<text>[^<]+)}i', $str, $matches);
echo $matches["color"] . ' ' . $matches["text"]; // outputs: ff0000 sdafsdfadsf

From here out, you can assign $matches["color"] and $matches["text"] to whatever variables you like. If I may offer a suggestion... learn regex.. there are plenty of materials on the net, plus one damn good book (Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl [ISBN 0-596-52812-4]).

While regex intimidates people, it really is worth spending the time to learn in the end.. makes life so much easier.

Cheers,

NRG