Re: How to strip off all html-comments

Martin, strip_tags() would be useful for removing *all* HTML from a string, though you can specify that certain tags should be retained. For example, if you want to remove all *but* anchor tags from your string, your function would look like this:

        $str = strip_tags($str,'<a>');

However, if you want to remove *just* comment tags, though, you're better off using the ereg_replace() or eregi_replace() function to remove the comment tags, something like this:

        $str = eregi_replace("<!--[^>]*-->","",$str);

...which would be a lot easier than including every other possible tag in the second field of the strip_tags() function. This regexp is very similar to one that I used to remove img tags from a string in a project I was working on. Good luck! At 07:58 AM 12/31/2001, Brian Clark wrote:

* James Cox (james@awpimajes.com) [Dec 31. 2001 06:38]: http://www.php.net/stripcodes I think you mean strip_tags() <http://www.php.net/strip_tags> [...]

Hello! How can I easily strip off all html-comments (<! Comment >) from a string?

Martin

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