Lisi, To save reinventing the wheel would strip_tags() be any use to you? (see manual) =dn > I am retrieving text stored in a database, and I want to strip out any HTML > tags and then only display the first 30 characters with "..." to show the > user that there is more text to view. > > My problem is with stripping out HTML tags, the code is stripping out the > text enclosed within the HTML tags as well. > > Here is the code I am using: > > $pat = "<{1}.+>{1}"; > > if (ereg("text", $type)){ //if the field type is text look for HTML > tags to remove > $content_array[$c] = ereg_replace($pat, '', $content_array[$c]); > $content_array[$c] = substr($content_array[$c], 1, 30); > $content_array[$c] = $content_array[$c]."..."; > } > > echo $content_array[$c]; > > > What should the correct $pat be? > > Thanks, > > -Lisi > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php