Hi, I want to dynamically remove specific tags and their content from an html file and thought of using preg_replace but can't get the syntax right. Basically it should, for example, do something like : Replace everything between (and including) "" by nothing. Could anybody help me out on this please ? ...
I've constructed a form, but some rows of the form can potentially be returned blank, with default values. I'm trying to find a way of searching the form output and then deleting the bit which I know is not needed - which looks like: <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <td>2E</td> <td id="8003">-800</td> </tr> I've used str_replace() effectively o...
Hi All I would like to be able to remove content from a string of data. This is an example string from google maps api. Distance: 70.5 mi (about 1 hour 12 mins)<br/>Map data ©2009 Google I would like everything in between the brackets (). So can I remove everything from either side with preg_split ? Hope you can advise. ...
I'm writing a quick preg_replace to strip comments from CSS. CSS comments usually have this syntax: /* Development Classes*/ /* Un-comment me for easy testing (will make it simpler to see errors) */ So I'm trying to kill everything between /* and */, like so: $pattern = "#/\*[^(\*/)]*\*/#"; $replace = ""; $v = preg_replace($pattern...
Hi there, I am working on a small project for learning PHP better. This project has a primary file, which opens another website (e.g. youtube) by using fopen + fread. (or file_get_contents ?) The site will be saved into a variable and after that a function will parse the file's content and should replace certain items with advanced con...
Hi there! I'm trying to get file contents, replace some parts of it using regular expressions and preg_replace and save it to another file: $content = file_get_contents('file.txt', true); $content_replaced = preg_replace('/\[\/m\]{1}\s+(\{\{.*\}\})\s+[\x{4e00}-\x{9fa5}]+/u', 'replaced text', $contents); if ($content_replaced) { fi...
$url = "example-com--folder"; $searchArray = array('/-/','/--/'); $replaceArray = array('.','/'); $url = preg_replace($searchArray, $replaceArray, $url); The output I want is example.com/folder but all I get now is example.com..folder I know this is because I don't have the proper regex pattern, but what would that pattern be? ...
Hello again. $string = preg_replace("#\[name=([a-zA-Z0-9 .-]+)*]#",'<td><a href="' . "$front_page/" . str_replace(' ', '-', "$1") . '">'."$1</a></td>",$string); This part of script doesn't work: str_replace(' ', '-', "$1") I need to replace " " with "-", i also try preg_replace inside main preg_replace, str_ireplace also But this...
I have the following code: protected function safePath($path) { $path = (string) $path; $path = preg_replace( array( '#[\n\r\t\0]*#im', '#/(\.){1,}/#i', '#(\.){2,}#i', '#(\.){2,}#i', '#\('.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'){2,}#i' ), array( '', '', '', '/' ), ...
Consider this: $sServerPath = "\\\\nlyehvedw1cl016\\projects$\\ARCLE_SW_SVN\\"; $sSVNParentPath = $sServerPath."svn\\"; $bla = " authz_module_name = TEST_TestRepos repository_dir = bla W"; $sSVNParentPath = $sServerPath."svn\\"; $sReplaceBy = "repository_dir = ".$sSVNParentPath.$sProjectName."\n"; echo $sReplaceBy; echo preg_replace ...
Hi, I'd like to match and extract variables from: {{variable:int}} variable would be anything a-z : is a separator int would be an integer 0-9 Curretly i have: preg_replace('!\{\{(\S+)\}\}!', "$1", $string) which does only half the job, i still have to split by :. Thank you! ...
I want to split alpha-numeric (with space) and non-alpha-numeric by comma in a string. I tried with this... $str = "This is !@#$%^&"; preg_replace("/([a-z0-9_\s])([^a-z0-9_])/i", "$1, $2", $str); But I got this result... This, is, !@#$%^& How can I fix the search pattarn to get this result? This is, !@#$%^& Thanks. ...
I have a to match a field in MySQL, for which I thought I could use a regular expression, but it appears that MySQL doesn't have the functionality I need to do the job. Here's the scenario: I have a variable in PHP called $url. Let's say this variable is set as the string "/article/my-article/page/2". I also have a table of URLs in M...
I have some HTML that is being run through PHP: <a href="?char=">&</a> and I'm wanting to use a preg_replace to replace the first & with a urlencoded value of it. However: preg_replace("/char=\">(.*?)<\/a>/", "char=".urlencode("$1")."\">$1</a>", $links); But this gives me the value $1, instead of the expected back-reference. How ca...
I'm trying to extract the first src attribute of an image in a block of HTML text like this: Lorem ipsum <img src="http://site.com/img.jpg" />consequat. I have no problem creating the regex to match the src attribute, but how do I return the first matched src attribute, instead of replacing it? From pouring over the PHP manual, it ...
Having trouble with pattern and replacement. How can I make the replacement echo a final product such as INSERT INTO `table` (`person`, `file`) VALUES ('test','test'), ('test2','test2'), ('test3','test3'); I am trying to insert the string into SQL but I need to format the current string below to do so, and I need to have the last part...
I am trying to do an SQL query, but I need to check somehow if the value is an email address. I need a way to check if $user is an email address, because I have user values such as this in my table. test test2 [email protected] [email protected] test392 [email protected] and so on... I need to make it so $useremail checks $user to find...
How do I, using preg_replace, replace more than one underscore with just one underscore? ...
I want to change the color of text inside single quotes, but i have also want to change the color of parenthasis as long as they arent in quotes. this is what i have but its not working as planned. "/([^'])\((.*?)\)([^']+)/is" => "$1<span style=\"color: ".$ccode['green']."\">(</span>$2<span style=\"color: ".$ccode['green']."\">)</span>$...
This question is more of a "what is the best/easiest way to do this type of question. I would like to grab just the users id from a string such as <a href="/profile.php?rdc332738&id=123456&refid=22">User name</a> I would like to parse the string and get just the "123456" part of it. I was thinking I could explode the string but...