Preserved Topic: Replace < stuff > with PHP (Page 1 of 1)

How would I do the reg expression to replace everything including the < and > in html docs.

$string = preg_replace("<*>","",$string);

That is my first thought, but I know it not to be correct...

How would I do this?

$string = preg_replace("/<(.+?)>/", "", $string);

But, if you simply want to remove HTML tags, use strip_tags() function instead...

$string = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/", "", $string);

would come in handy in cases where there is a greater-than as part of the attributes of the tag. Granted, that should never happen because you are supposed to use >, but you never know.

That begs the question. How does strip_tags() handle it, and would it choke on embedded PHP in a tag like:

<a href="<?php $thaLink ?>">

Does it leave:

">

?

-jiblet

Unfortunately, strip_tags() will leave "> . Generally, in order to handle this correctly, you would have to write mini HTML parser (that knows the difference between HTML tag name & parameters)...

Thanks all.

Why I needed this was because I am construction an indexing search engine which works with Database information.

The database stores HTML information, and I want to remove all of it. So that something to the effect of <li>Information</li>

gets indexed as Information as opposed to <li>Information</li>

Thanks again.