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November 28th, 2003, 11:52 PM

Alicia

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Hi guys,

currently in my database, i have a column where they store bookmark html code
e.g: <a name="dddda"></a>

actually i wanna remove all all the html tags and only display the ddda in a textfield to the user.. the prob is how can i remove the html bookmark tags ?

I did think of using strip_tags function.. but what should i put at the end of the function ? is it <a name=""></a> ?? this doesn't make sense to me.. is there any other way i can do this ?

PLease advise.

November 29th, 2003, 10:53 AM

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What I would do is I would use PHPMyAdmin to export that table to a file, open that file in a text editor and do Replace <a name=" with nothing. Then run the Replace again, this time replacing "></a> with nothing.
Save the file, then in PHPMyAdmin run that file as SQL.
And voilà...

Hope this helps,

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November 30th, 2003, 08:37 PM

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I want to show the value of the row to the users(except the html code) and not edit by myself..

any idea ?

November 30th, 2003, 09:49 PM

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Although it may be too late for this suggestion, but re-designing your table might be a good option...

For example, a table called "Bookmarks" with the fields "url" and "label"...

Other than that, I suppose there's way to strip the attributes out of HTML using an XML parser (pre-built into PHP)
Reference: http://ca2.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

From what I understand, the strip_tags function will simply strip any existence of <tag> in a string... You can't extract information before it does so.

November 30th, 2003, 10:37 PM

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I took the liberty of creating some code to parse the HTML...
I made a basic parser that will strip the value of the HREF attribute in the A tag...
This is basic stuff, read the reference link i provided in my previous post for some further examples.

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



    // This function will be run when a tag starts

    function startElement($parser, $tag, $attrs) { 

    if ($tag == "A") { 

            print ($attrs['HREF']);

    } 

    }



    // This function will be run when a tag ends

    function endElement($parser, $tag) {

        return;

    } 



    // This is the link that we want to parse

    $data = '<a href="http://www.devarticles.com/">This is a link to devarticles</a>';



    // Create the parser

    $xml_parser = xml_parser_create();



    // Tell parser which functions to use

    xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement"); 



    // Parse the text

    xml_parse($xml_parser, $data);



    // Close the parser

    xml_parser_free($xml_parser);



?>

Note, to put the value in a text field, change the print line within the startElement function to the following:
print ("<input type='text' value='".$attrs['HREF']."' size='50'>");

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