PHP regex expression for the following...

Question

<p>This will serve as a debug page.</p>
<p><img src="http://mattmueller.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/threadless.png" alt="Threadless" title="Threadless" width="650" height="150" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-73" /></p>

<p>This will serve as a debug page.</p>
<img src="http://mattmueller.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/threadless.png" alt="Threadless" title="Threadless" width="650" height="150" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-73" />

You'll notice that there is no <p> tags surrounding the image tag. I would like this just to remove <p> tags that wrap images. Wordpress is annoying.. essentially. If its easier with a str_replace or something, let me know. But I've tried. And failed so far....

Thanks! Matt Mueller

Answer 1

s/<p>(<img.*?\/>)<\/p>/$1/g

Answer 2

$x = preg_replace('/<p[^>]*>(<img[^>]*>)<\/p[^>]*>/', '$1', $x);

Where $x is your content

Answer 3

Here's a great tool that will help you, hopefully:

http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/