Hey,

I was wondering if it was possible to <?php include('page.php'); ?>
Now on the persons site he has menus etc, I was wondering if I would be able to include his webpage onto my site as an example but remove the menus he has.

All his content is contained within his website as <div> tags.
Is it possible to not display his <div class="menu"> </div> ??

Do you have the guys permission to do that? just move the file locally and remove the bits you dont want manually.

I dont think that would work because his page accesses database information.

You could strip the menus' etc using regular expressions.
I'll add a function to strip <img> -tags for you, the rest you can find from www.php.net

PHP Code:

$dataURL = "http://site.you.want/fullurl.php";
$result = file_get_contents($dataURL);
function strip(&$variable){
    //REGEXP TO STRIP ALL TAGS THAT START WITH <img...
    return eregi_replace("< *img[^>]* *>", "", $variable);
}
// USAGE AS FOLLOWS
$result = strip($result);
echo ($result); 


Hey, thanks for the point in the right direction.
I managed to get rid of all the images etc by using

PHP Code:

<?

$dataURL = "friendssite";
$result = file_get_contents($dataURL);
function strip($result){
    //REGEXP TO STRIP ALL TAGS THAT START WITH <img...
    return eregi_replace('(.jpg|.gif|.png)', "", $result);

}
// USAGE AS FOLLOWS
$include = strip($result);
echo ($include);
?>

I know this is very sloppy because all it does is cut out the end of the code. It still leaves <img src="image"> but I found that it wasnt removing the background images.

Is there a way to replace multiple values?
eg

PHP Code:

return eregi_replace("< *img[^>]* *>", "", $variable);
return eregi_replace("< *background[^>]* *>", "", $variable); 


This wouldnt work because of the $variable being used twice, but I'm not sure how to stick it all together at the other end if I used more than one variable.

Thanks for your help, has taught me about eregi_replace

Originally Posted by lothop

Hey, thanks for the point in the right direction.
I managed to get rid of all the images etc by using

PHP Code:

<?

$dataURL = "friendssite";
$result = file_get_contents($dataURL);
function strip($result){
    //REGEXP TO STRIP ALL TAGS THAT START WITH <img...
    return eregi_replace('(.jpg|.gif|.png)', "", $result);

}
// USAGE AS FOLLOWS
$include = strip($result);
echo ($include);
?>

I know this is very sloppy because all it does is cut out the end of the code. It still leaves <img src="image"> but I found that it wasnt removing the background images.

Is there a way to replace multiple values?
eg

PHP Code:

return eregi_replace("< *img[^>]* *>", "", $variable);
return eregi_replace("< *background[^>]* *>", "", $variable); 


This wouldnt work because of the $variable being used twice, but I'm not sure how to stick it all together at the other end if I used more than one variable.

Thanks for your help, has taught me about eregi_replace

You can't have multiple returns in a function, but instead you could do

PHP Code:

$variable = eregi_replace("< *img[^>]* *>", "", $variable);
$variable = eregi_replace("< *background[^>]* *>", "", $variable);
return $variable; 


As I said earlier, go to php.net and check the eregi_replace from the search option in functions list, there're usually a lot comments on other developers, who've used certain functions and post their solutions there. It's the best place to get a hang on php regexps Other solutions would be to google on php regexp functions Just try it out, you'll be amazed how much valid stuff you can get your hands on with a little effort

PS. I didn't look at your regex, if it's valid in any case, but by the looks of it, it's matching every tag containing background and ending at the closing tags end... Just go digg around some regex cheat sheets or something, to see the full potential

As I said earlier, go to php.net and check the eregi_replace from the search option in functions list

That was exactly what I did
I just wasnt sure on returning the information back.

Thanks for your help.
Giving people a push in the right direction definately helps them learn rather than giving them the code saying put this in your page and it will work. They wont learn much.

Took me about an hour to understand how eregi_replace works and in the process found str_replace, but now that I've gotten my head around it, wont be asking the same question twice. (hopefully)

I don't have time to update my work yet, as I have work, but ill be back to post what happens so anyone following this can see the outcome

It's been a while, but trying to do a similar kind of thing.

I was wondering how I could identify a bit of text, and then output it.
So say theres a news article that gets updated regularly, and I want that displayed on a section of my site.
How would I isolate that section of code?

Cheers