Preg/str replace

PHP
1

Hi,

I’m having trouble replacing some text. So far I have:


$new = str_replace('style="font-family: Interstate-Regular; font-size: xx-small;"', '', '<p><strong><span style="font-family: Interstate-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"></span>');
echo $new;

It won’t work and I can’t see why? Its just testing at this stage, I have a loop through the DB to remove all the rubbish formatting thanks to “data inputters”.

Cheers,
Rhys

2

Could you give an example of input and desired output?

3

Hi,
Input is anything really. I have all rows in the table returned if the description contains xx-small.
Input is usually lots of text with:
TEXT…<span style=“font-family: Interstate-Bold; font-size: xx-small;”>…TEXT…</span>…TEXT…

And I want to return:
TEXT…<span>…TEXT…</span>…TEXT…

Basically remove the styling added by tinymce and the data inputters.

4

In this case you’d better use preg_replace, because the “rubbish formatting” can have many forms, right?
For example:

preg_replace('/<span[^>]*>/', '<span>', '<p><strong><span style="font-family: Interstate-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"></span>');

gets rid of all that is written inside the span tag and returns:

<p><strong><span></span>
5

Thanks,

If I wanted to keep everything but the xx-small, would something like this work:


preg_replace('/<span[^style=\\"font-family: (.+?)\\">]*>/', '<span style="font-family: \\\\1;">', '<p><strong><span style="font-family: Interstate-Bold; font-size: xx-small;"></span>');
6

You can try it out here (for example, googling will give you other regex test sites as well): http://www.spaweditor.com/scripts/regex/

7

That’s a great tool. Thanks. I went with your code in the end as no styling is needed.

Cheers,
Rhys.