Re: Re: stripping html tags

On 6/5/05, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@garden.org> wrote: > * Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>: > > I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went > > wrong. Why does this: > > $text = preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , > > "" , $text); > > > > throw this error: > > syntax error at line 265, column 39: > > $text = > > preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , "" , $text); > > ======================================^ > > > > It seems to be pointing to the 'e' is 'head'. Why? Thanks. > > Why are you using regexes instead of strip_tags()? > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: > Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org > National Gardening Association | > http://www.kidsgardening.com > 802-863-5251 x156 | > http://nationalgardenmonth.org > mailto:matthew@garden.org | > http://vermontbotanical.org > I don't want to strip out all the tags, just certain ones. But the problem turned out not to be in this peice of code- the script simply wasn't parsing. I started another thread with that problem after failing to fix it on my own. Dotan http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/pages/artist_albums.php/19/Adams%2C%20Bryan Bryan Adams Lyrics