Remove Microsoft Word formatting

[alirezaok]

Hi

How can I remove Microsoft Word formatting from text (using PHP) when submitting a web form?

any one have one function for this ?

[djjjozsi]

Use a better web editing program then Word, and you could remove the word....

dreamwaver has better form tools then Office.

alirezaok;10889741 wrote:

Hi

How can I remove Microsoft Word formatting from text (using PHP) when submitting a web form?

any one have one function for this ?

[NogDog]

If outputting UTF-8 content, this seems to work well:

<?php
function filterText($text)
{
   $search = array (
      '&',
      '<',
      '>',
      '"',
      chr(212),
      chr(213),
      chr(210),
      chr(211),
      chr(209),
      chr(208),
      chr(201),
      chr(145),
      chr(146),
      chr(147),
      chr(148),
      chr(151),
      chr(150),
      chr(133)
   );
   $replace = array (
      '&amp;',
      '&lt;',
      '&gt;',
      '&quot;',
      '&#38;quot;',
      '&#38;#8216;',
      '&#38;#8217;',
      '&#38;#8220;',
      '&#38;#8221;',
      '&#38;#8211;',
      '&#38;#8212;',
      '&#38;#8230;',
      '&#38;#8216;',
      '&#38;#8217;',
      '&#38;#8220;',
      '&#38;#8221;',
      '&#38;#8211;',
      '&#38;#8212;',
      '&#38;#8230;'
   );
   return str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
}

$test = <<<END
This here’s a test. “It is only a test.” ‘The end.’
END;

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"');
echo filterText($test);

[alirezaok]

in fact the problem is i want to remove all styles embeded in html tags.

[NogDog]

alirezaok;10889747 wrote:

in fact the problem is i want to remove all styles embeded in html tags.

I thought you were referring to the MS-proprietary characters Word uses for things like "smart quotes".

I suppose you could probably use preg_replace(), but I'd need some specific examples of the sort of thing that needs to be removed.

[alirezaok]

this is one part of html:

<TR style="mso-yfti-irow: 2; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes">
<TD 
style=" PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt solid; WIDTH: 2.05in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" 
vAlign=top width=197>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT 
face="Times New Roman">jkl<o:p></o:p></FONT></P></TD>
<TD 

STYLE="WIDTH: 2.05in; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" 
vAlign=top width=197>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT 
face="Times New Roman">jkl<o:p></o:p></FONT></P></TD>
<TD 
stYle="BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 5.4pt; BORDER-TOP: #ece9d8; PADDING-LEFT: 5.4pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: #ece9d8;  BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt" 
vAlign=top width=197>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT 
face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</FONT></o:p></P></TD></TR>

i want to remove all style sheet embedded it it (removing all style="......")

(notice: some style are with CAPITAL LETTER. i want to remove them too. all styles must be remove)

[NogDog]

$filtered = preg_replace('#style="[^"]*"#i', '', $text);

[coldwerturkey]

is there somewhere that explains all the different characters and patterns search that can be done with preg_replace()? ...all this stuff: '#style="[^"]*"#i'

php.net/preg_replace didn't seen to have much,

[NogDog]

From the manual:
PCRE regular expression syntax
PCRE regular expression modifiers

I learned a lot of it in my previous experience using Perl, so I'm sure there are a lot of Perl regular expression references out there that could help, too.

[Weedpacket]

Hm... remove all style attributes from an HTML document...

Hoping the document is reasonably well-formed HTML...

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHtmlFile('doc.html');
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
foreach($xpath->query('//*[@style]') as $element)
{
	$element->removeAttribute('style');
}
$doc->saveHtmlFile('doc_without_styles.html');