I'm outputting a string assembled from a few different parts, and some of those parts may or may not contain some HTML. If I apply ucfirst() to the string and there's HTML before the text to be displayed then the text doesn't get proper capitalization.
$output = $before_text . $text . $after_text;
So if I've got
$before_text = 'this is the lead into ';
$text = 'the rest of the sentence';
$after_text = '.';
then ucfirst() works fine and $output will be
This is the lead in to the rest of the sentence.
But this
$before_text = '<p>';
$text = 'the sentence.';
$after_text = '</p>';
won't do anything. So I guess I need a function or regex to make its way to the first actual, regular text and then capitalize it. But I can't figure it out.
use strip_tags in $text and save in $temp: this should give you text that is not html.
apply ucfirst on $temp and call it $temp_ucfirst: this should give you string upper-cased.
use str_replace to replace $temp in $text with $temp_ucfirst: this should replace the not-html text with the upper-cased one.
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The text of story content in my database is:
I want to add\r\nnew line
(no quote)
When I use:
echo nl2br($story->getStoryContent());
to replace the \r\n with br, it doesn't work. The browser still display \r\n. When I view source, the \r\n is still there and br is nowhere to be found also. This is weird because when I test the function nl2br with simple code like:
echo nl2br("Welcome\r\nThis is my HTML document");
it does work. Would you please tell me why it didn't work? Thank you so much.
The following snippet uses a technique that you may like better, as follows:
<?php
$example = "\n\rSome Kind\r of \nText\n\n";
$replace = array("\r\n", "\n\r", "\r", "\n");
$subs = array("","","","");
$text = str_replace($replace, $subs, $example );
var_dump($text); // "Some Kind of Text"
Live demo here
I doubt that you need "\n\r" but I left it in just in case you feel it is really necessary.
This works by having an array of line termination strings to be replaced with an empty string in each case.
I found the answer is pretty simple. I simply use
$text = $this->storyContent;
$text = str_replace("\\r\\n","<br>",$text);
$text = str_replace("\\n\\r","<br>",$text);
$text = str_replace("\\r","<br>",$text);
$text = str_replace("\\n","<br>",$text);
I have to convert an old website to a CMS and one of the challenges I have is at present there are over 900 folders that contain up to 9 text files in each folder. I need to combine the up to 9 text files into one and then use that file as the import into the CMS.
The file concatenation and import are working perfectly.
The challenge that I have is parsing some of the text in the text file.
The text file contains a url in the form of
Some text [http://xxxxx.com|About something] some more text
I am converting this with this code
if (substr ($line1, 0, 7) !=="Replace") {
$pattern = '/\\[/';
$pattern2 = '/\\]/';
$pattern3 = '/\\|/';
$replacement = '<a href="';
$replacement3 = '">';
$replacement2='</a><br>';
$subject = $line1;
$i=preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $subject, -1 );
$i=preg_replace($pattern3, $replacement3, $i, -1 );
$i=preg_replace($pattern2, $replacement2, $i, -1 );
$line .= '<div class="'.$folders[$x].'">'.$i.'</div>' ;
}
It may not be the most efficient code but it works and as this is a one off exercise execution time etc is not an issue.
Now to the problem that I cannot seem to code around. Some of the urls in the text files are in this format
Some text [http://xxxx.com] some more text
The pattern matching that I have above finds pattern and pattern2 but as there is no pattern3 the url is malformed in the output.
Regular expressions are not my forte is there a way to modify what I have above or is there another way to get the correctly formatted url in my output or will I need to parse the output a second time looking for the malformed url and correct it before writing it to the output file?
You can use preg_replace_callback() to achieve this:
Find any string of the format [...]
Try to split them by the delimiter | using explode()
If the split array contains two pieces, then it means the [...] string contains two pieces: the link href and the link anchor text
If not, then it means the the [...] string contains only the link href part
Format and return the link
Code:
$input = <<<EOD
Some text [http://xxxxx.com|About something] some more text
Some text [http://xxxx.com] some more text
EOD;
$output = preg_replace_callback('#\[([^\]]+)\]#', function($m)
{
$parts = explode('|', $m[1]);
if (count($parts) == 2)
{
return sprintf('%s', $parts[0], $parts[1]);
}
else
{
return sprintf('%1$s', $m[1]);
}
}, $input);
echo $output;
Output:
Some text About something some more text
Some text http://xxxx.com some more text
Live demo
My code-
$input = "this text is for highlighting a text if it exists in a string. Let us check if it works or not";
$pattern ="/if/";
$replacement= "H1Fontbracket"."if"."H1BracketClose";
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $input);
Now the problem is that when i run this code, it splits into multiple lines, what else do i need to do so that i am able to get it in one line
Use str_replace rather than preg_replace. preg_replace will return an array of strings, and str_replace will just return the string:
echo str_replace($pattern, $replacement, $input);
What do you mean by multiple lines? Of course it'll show up as multiple lines on a webpage if you wrap the ifs in header tags. Headers are block elements. And more importantly, headers are headers. Not for highlighting text.
If you want to highlight something with HTML, you should probably use a span with a class, or you could use the HTML5 element mark:
$input = "this text is for highlighting a text if it exists in an iffy string.";
echo preg_replace('/\\bif\\b/', '<span class="highlighted">$0</span>', $input);
echo preg_replace('/\\bif\\b/', '<mark>$0</mark>', $input);
The \\b is to only match if words, and not just the if letters, which might be part of a different word. Then in your CSS you can decide how the marked words should show up:
.highlighted { background: yellow }
mark { background: yellow }
Or whatever. I would recommend that you read up a bit on how HTML and CSS works if you're going to make web pages :)
Try this
$input = "this text is for highlighting a text if
it exists in a string. Let us check if it works or not";
$pattern="if";
$replacement="<h1>". $pattern. "</h1>";
$input= str_replace($pattern,$replacement,$input);
echo "$input";
function highlight($str,$search){
$patterns = array('/\//', '/\^/', '/\./', '/\$/', '/\|/',
'/\(/', '/\)/', '/\[/', '/\]/', '/\*/', '/\+/',
'/\?/', '/\{/', '/\}/', '/\,/');
$replace = array('\/', '\^', '\.', '\$', '\|', '\(', '\)',
'\[', '\]', '\*', '\+', '\?', '\{', '\}', '\,');
$search = preg_replace($patterns, $replace, $search);
$search = str_replace(" ","|",$search);
return #preg_replace("/(^|\s)($search)/i",'${1}<span class=highlight>${2}</span>',$str);
}
What is the easiest way of applying highlighting of some text excluding text within OCCASIONAL tags "<...>"?
CLARIFICATION: I want the existing tags PRESERVED!
$t =
preg_replace(
"/(markdown)/",
"<strong>$1</strong>",
"This is essentially plain text apart from a few html tags generated with some
simplified markdown rules: <a href=markdown.html>[see here]</a>");
Which should display as:
"This is essentially plain text apart from a few html tags generated with some simplified markdown rules: see here"
... BUT NOT MESS UP the text inside the anchor tag (i.e. <a href=markdown.html> ).
I've heard the arguments of not parsing html with regular expressions, but here we're talking essentially about plain text except for minimal parsing of some markdown code.
Actually, this seems to work ok:
<?php
$item="markdown";
$t="This is essentially plain text apart from a few html tags generated
with some simplified markdown rules: <a href=markdown.html>[see here]</a>";
//_____1. apply emphasis_____
$t = preg_replace("|($item)|","<strong>$1</strong>",$t);
// "This is essentially plain text apart from a few html tags generated
// with some simplified <strong>markdown</strong> rules: <a href=
// <strong>markdown</strong>.html>[see here]</a>"
//_____2. remove emphasis if WITHIN opening and closing tag____
$t = preg_replace("|(<[^>]+?)(<strong>($item)</strong>)([^<]+?>)|","$1$3$4",$t);
// this preserves the text before ($1), after ($4)
// and inside <strong>..</strong> ($2), but without the tags ($3)
// "This is essentially plain text apart from a few html tags generated
// with some simplified <strong>markdown</strong> rules: <a href=markdown.html>
// [see here]</a>"
?>
A string like $item="odd|string" would cause some problems, but I won't be using that kind of string anyway... (probably needs htmlentities(...) or the like...)
You could split the string into tag/no-tag parts using preg_split:
$parts = preg_split('/(<(?:[^"\'>]|"[^"<]*"|\'[^\'<]*\')*>)/', $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
Then you can iterate the parts while skipping every even part (i.e. the tag parts) and apply your replacement on it:
for ($i=0, $n=count($parts); $i<$n; $i+=2) {
$parts[$i] = preg_replace("/(markdown)/", "<strong>$1</strong>", $parts[$i]);
}
At the end put everything back together with implode:
$str = implode('', $parts);
But note that this is really not the best solution. You should better use a proper HTML parser like PHP’s DOM library. See for example these related questions:
Highlight keywords in a paragraph
Regex / DOMDocument - match and replace text not in a link
First replace any string after a tag, but force your string is after a tag:
$t=preg_replace("|(>[^<]*)(markdown)|i",'$1<strong>$2</strong>',"<null>$t");
Then delete your forced tag:
$show=preg_replace("|<null>|",'',$show);
You could split your string into an array at every '<' or '>' using preg_split(), then loop through that array and replace only in entries not beginning with an '>'. Afterwards you combine your array to an string using implode().
This regex should strip all HTML opening and closing tags: /(<[.*?]>)+/
You can use it with preg_replace like this:
$test = "Hello <strong>World!</strong>";
$regex = "/(<.*?>)+/";
$result = preg_replace($regex,"",$test);
actually this is not very efficient, but it worked for me
$your_string = '...';
$search = 'markdown';
$left = '<strong>';
$right = '</strong>';
$left_Q = preg_quote($left, '#');
$right_Q = preg_quote($right, '#');
$search_Q = preg_quote($search, '#');
while(preg_match('#(>|^)[^<]*(?<!'.$left_Q.')'.$search_Q.'(?!'.$right_Q.')[^>]*(<|$)#isU', $your_string))
$your_string = preg_replace('#(^[^<]*|>[^<]*)(?<!'.$left_Q.')('.$search_Q.')(?!'.$right_Q.')([^>]*<|[^>]*$)#isU', '${1}'.$left.'${2}'.$right.'${3}', $your_string);
echo $your_string;
Using PHP, given a string such as: this is a <strong>string</strong>; I need a function to strip out ALL html tags so that the output is: this is a string. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
PHP has a built-in function that does exactly what you want: strip_tags
$text = '<b>Hello</b> World';
print strip_tags($text); // outputs Hello World
If you expect broken HTML, you are going to need to load it into a DOM parser and then extract the text.
What about using strip_tags, which should do just the job ?
For instance (quoting the doc) :
<?php
$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> Other text';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
will give you :
Test paragraph. Other text
Edit : but note that strip_tags doesn't validate what you give it. Which means that this code :
$text = "this is <10 a test";
var_dump(strip_tags($text));
Will get you :
string 'this is ' (length=8)
(Everything after the thing that looks like a starting tag gets removed).
strip_tags is the function you're after. You'd use it something like this
$text = '<strong>Strong</strong>';
$text = strip_tags($text);
// Now $text = 'Strong'
I find this to be a little more effective than strip_tags() alone, since strip_tags() will not zap javascript or css:
$search = array(
"'<head[^>]*?>.*?</head>'si",
"'<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>'si",
"'<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>'si",
);
$replace = array("","","");
$text = strip_tags(preg_replace($search, $replace, $html));