I want to echo php text but not between (). Some thing like this =
<?php
$text = "Barry(male)";
echo $text;
?>
output =
Barry
How can i do this?
You can use preg_replace to substitute whatever is between parenthes (and the parentheses themselves) with an empty string. Like this:
<?php
$text = "Barry(male)";
echo preg_replace('#\(.*\)#', '', $text);
?>
Please note: since you didn't specify your string format, I'm assuming that the parenthesized text appears just once in the string and that there aren't nested parenthes. Otherwise, this doesn't work as expected.
Something like:
$text = "Barry(male)";
$split = explode("(", $text);
echo $split[0];
// "Barry"
Related
I have a data base with texts and in each text there are words (tags) that start with # (example of a record : "Hi I'm posting an #issue on #Stackoverflow ")
I'm trying to find a solution to add html code to transform each tag into a link when printing the text.
So the text are stored as strings in MySQL database like this :
Some text #tag1 text #tag2 ...
I want to replace all these #abcd with
#abcd
And have a final result as follow:
Some text #tag1 text #tag2 ...
I guess that i should use some regex but it is not at all my strong side.
Try the following using preg_replace(..)
$input = "Hi I'm posting an #issue on #Stackoverflow";
echo preg_replace("/#([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/", "<a href='targetpage.php?val=$1'>#$1</a>", $input);
http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php
A simple solution could look like this:
$re = '/\S*#(\[[^\]]+\]|\S+)/m';
$str = 'Some text #tag1 text #tag2 ...';
$subst = '#$1';
$result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str);
echo "The result of the substitution is ".$result;
Demo
If you are actually after Twitter hashtags and want to go crazy take a look here how it is done in Java.
There is also a JavaScript Twitter library that makes things very easy.
Try this the function
<?php
$demoString1 = "THIS is #test STRING WITH #abcd";
$demoString2 = "Hi I'm posting an #issue on #Stackoverflow";
function wrapWithAnchor($link,$string){
$pattern = "/#([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/";
$replace_with = '<a href="'.$link.'?val=$1">$1<a>';
return preg_replace( $pattern, $replace_with ,$string );
}
$link= 'http://www.targetpage.php';
echo wrapWithAnchor($link,$demoString1);
echo '<hr />';
echo wrapWithAnchor($link,$demoString2);
?>
I have a string, that look like this "<html>". Now what I want to do, is get all text between the "<" and the ">", and this should apply to any text, so that if i did "<hello>", or "<p>" that would also work. Then I want to replace this string with a string that contains the string between the tags.
For example
In:
<[STRING]>
Out:
<this is [STRING]>
Where [STRING] is the string between the tags.
Use a capture group to match everything after < that isn't >, and substitute that into the replacement string.
preg_replace('/<([^>]*)>/, '<this is $1>/, $string);
here is a solution to test on the pattern exists and then capture it to finally modify it ...
<?php
$str = '<[STRING]>';
$pattern = '#<(\[.*\])>#';
if(preg_match($pattern, $str, $matches)):
var_dump($matches);
$str = preg_replace($pattern, '<this is '.$matches[1].'>', $str);
endif;
echo $str;
?>
echo $str;
You can test here: http://ideone.com/uVqV0u
I don't know if this can be usefull to you.
You can use a regular expression that is the best way. But you can also consider a little function that remove first < and last > char from your string.
This is my solution:
<?php
/*Vars to test*/
$var1="<HTML>";
$var2="<P>";
$var3="<ALL YOU WANT>";
/*function*/
function replace($string_tag) {
$newString="";
for ($i=1; $i<(strlen($string_tag)-1); $i++){
$newString.=$string_tag[$i];
}
return $newString;
}
/*Output*/
echo (replace($var1));
echo "\r\n";
echo (replace($var2));
echo "\r\n";
echo (replace($var3));
?>
Output give me:
HTML
P
ALL YOU WANT
Tested on https://ideone.com/2RnbnY
I have a text name #chatfun <chinu,25,M,123456> i want to #chatfun chinu,25,M,123456 How to replace < and > tag.
My Code :
<?php
$text = '#chatfun <chinu,25,M,123456>';
echo strip_tags($text);
?>
Above code i am getting the blank text. How to get my actual result?
Just use str_replace with the angular brackets in an array.
echo str_replace(array('>', '<'), '', $text);
Another option is to use regex with preg_replace
echo preg_replace("/[<>]+/", '', $text);
Have you tried str_replace?
$text = str_replace(array('<', '>'), '', '#chatfun <chinu,25,m,123456>');
That will replace the unwanted characters with nothing. Only caveat is that if the characters show up anywhere else, they, too, will be replaced.
<?php
$to_remove = array("<",">");
$text = '#chatfun <chinu,25,M,123456>';
echo str_replace($to_remove,"",$text);
?>
See refrence
You're getting blank text because the text between the < and > is considered part of a tag.
Use str_replace(array('<','>'),'',$text)
here is what i want to do
i am working with php explode function trying to limit characters it prints after defined condition
{
$result=http://php.net
new line characters i don't want to print
$links =explode("://",$result);
$nows=$links[1];
echo $nows;
}
as you can see the above code will print
php.net
new line characters i don't want to print
but instead i want to stop printing after
php.net
You can replace newline characters with nothing:
$nows = str_replace("\n", "", $links[1]);
$nows = str_replace("\r", "", $nows);
echo $nows;
If you want only what is printed on the first line, try this:
$result = "php.net
and some other text";
$nows = reset(explode("\n", str_replace("\r\n", "\n", $result)));
If the part you're looking after will always be in the first line:
$result="http://php.net
new line characters i don't want to print";
$links = explode("\n",$result);
/*
$links[0] ->http://php.net
$links[1] ->new line characters i don't want to print
*/
$links =explode("://",$links[0]);
$nows=$links[1];
echo $nows;
/*
php.net
*/
Anyway , Consider giving more details about your case in order to offer a better way.
For instance , maybe regex?
Try
$nows = trim( $links[1] );
TRIM() will remove newlines among other things
Manual page
EDIT:
Well now we have the actual situation which you say is :-
$result=http://php.net</br>nameserver:ns1</br>nameserver:ns2.
Try
$t = explode( '</br>', $result );
$t1 = explode ( '://', $t[0] );
echo $t1[1];
Just as a note, if it is you that is creating this string somewhere else </br> is not a valid html tag, it should be <br> or if you are using XHTML it should be <br />.
$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
I need to split the above into an array delimited by the paragraph tags. That is, I need to split the above into an array with two elements:
array ([0] = "this is the first paragraph", [1] = "this is the first paragraph")
Remove the closing </p> tags as we don't need them and then explode the string into an array on opening </p> tags.
$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
$text = str_replace('</p>', '', $text);
$array = explode('<p>', $text);
To see the code run please see the following codepad entry. As you can see this code will leave you with an empty array entry at index 0. If this is a problem then it can easily be removed by calling array_shift($array) before using the array.
For anyone else who finds this, don't forget that a P tag may have styles, id's or any other possible attributes so you should probably look at something like this:
$ps = preg_split('#<p([^>])*>#',$input);
This is an old question but I was not able to find any reasonable solution in an hour of looking for stactverflow answers. If you have string full of html tags (p tags) and if you want to get paragraphs (or first paragraph) use DOMDocument.
$long_description is a string that has <p> tags in it.
$long_descriptionDOM = new DOMDocument();
// This is how you use it with UTF-8
$long_descriptionDOM->loadHTML((mb_convert_encoding($long_description, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8')));
$paragraphs = $long_descriptionDOM->getElementsByTagName('p');
$first_paragraph = $paragraphs->item(0)->textContent();
I guess that this is the right solution. No need for regex.
edit: YOU SHOULD NOT USE REGEX TO PARSE HTML.
$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
$exptext = explode("<p>", $text);
echo $exptext[0];
echo "<br>";
echo $exptext[1];
//////////////// OUTPUT /////////////////
this is the first paragraph
this is the first paragraph
Try this code:
<?php
$textArray = explode("<p>" $text);
for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($textArray); $i++) {
$textArray[$i] = strip_tags($textArray[$i]);
}
If your input is somewhat consistent you can use a simple split method as:
$paragraphs = preg_split('~(</?p>\s*)+~', $text, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
Where the preg_split will look for combinations of <p> and </p> plus possible whitespace and separate the string there.
As unnecessary alternative you can also use querypath or phpquery to extract only complete paragraph contents using:
foreach (htmlqp($text)->find("p") as $p) { print $p->text(); }
Try the following:
<?php
$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
$array;
preg_replace_callback("`<p>(.+)</p>`isU", function ($matches) {
global $array;
$array[] = $matches[1];
}, $text);
var_dump($array);
?>
This can be modified, putting the array in a class that manage it with an add value method, and a getter.
Try this.
<?php
$text = "<p>this is the first paragraph</p><p>this is the first paragraph</p>";
$array = json_decode(json_encode((array) simplexml_load_string('<data>'.$text.'</data>')),1);
print_r($array['p']);
?>