Extract the properties from the text?

[Anon]

Dear all,

In php, the text with font, size, color was stored in the mysql database,such as

$text=<font size=2 color= green face=Arial> text</font>

If only text is taken, use the command

<?echo strip_tags($text)?>

If only the size is taken, what command will be used? How about the colour, font type
individually? thanks

Sincerely yours,
Simon

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There are not ready-made functions for doing that. You will have to write your own function.

[Anon]

Dear Vincent and all,

If only the following code is taken from the text,

< font size=2 color= green face=Arial >

What php function do we use?

Thanks
Simon

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Id depends on how strict the string is formetted.
if you always have
<font size=xxx color=xxx face=xxx>
with spaces only between each set or parameters then you can use substring() to get the part from 'size' upto the final xxx before the '>'.
Then you have a space seperated list of parameters.
You can explode() that into an array:
$aParameters = explode(' ', $sString);

Then you can loop through that array and explode each element around the '=' to get the left and right parts.