Re: strip urls

Thank you! That workes excellent! Merlin Christopher Weldon schrieb:

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RalfGesellensetter schrieb:

Am Montag 11 September 2006 15:36 schrieb Merlin:

I am trying to strip URL's out of a text. There is a function for this in php, but I can't find it anywhere. Can sombody help?

hi, it's strip_tags and only removes the tags (<a href ...) but keeps the plain text that would be displayed in a text browser.

Hi there, thank you for the hint. This it the one I was searching for. However unfortunatelly the function also strips all other tags! I am looking for one that only does strip the <a href tag. I am not so familar with regex, but I fear I would need to :-( My guess is that it must be something like this: $str = 'foo <a href="">test</a> o'; $str = preg_replace('<a (.*)', '', $str); echo $str; Can anybody help me on that? Thank you so much in advance. Regards, Merlin

Two things: First, you can actually specify which tags you don't want strip_tags to take out. Say for example you want <p> and <br /> tags to remain in the string: $string = strip_tags($string, '<p><br />'); Second, don't forget the tags you'll need in the preg_replace function: $str = preg_replace('/\<a href="([^\"]*)"[^\>]*\>/', "\1", $str); You can use other characters, such as ! if you want instead of /, but you have to use the same at the beginning and the end. - -- Christopher Weldon, ZCE President & CEO Cerberus Interactive, Inc. cweldon@cerberusonline.com 979.739.5874 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFBZ9yZxvk7JEXkbERAhuUAJ4o4rBiypj2OwpHjrUj2e0XZ8FVhQCeJZ6e eCOa+PYkyrRacqnT5VtoL/A= =/r2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----