Hi there!

I don't understand regular expressions ... but I have to do the following:

I have the content of a whole website in one variable called $text.
And I need to format and clean, replace some pieces of the text / code inside...

Example:

PHP Code:

$text="Hi! This is my text. Just an example. <a href='link.html'>Link</a><font size=2>Even more text</font>" 


Now I would like to clean up the text, I only need the text AND the links ... and I need to delete the rest (<font>, etc.)

How can this be done???

Will striptags() suit your needs? Just pass the string, and then pass the <a> tag as the second parameter to keep them.

PHP Code:

$txt = striptags($txt, '<a>'); 


Note that this doesn't clean any of the tag attributes. If you are accepting input from users, beware of mischievous uses (ie onclick's etc).