Removing HTML Tags from <a title=

[eyecrave]

I'm attempting to grab info from my DB to put in the

<A href="link.htm" title="$strStuff">Whatever</a>

When I put the mouse over the link I get the

<br /> or <b></b>

showing up. How can I remove it? There must be a function built into PHP, but I don't know what I'm looking for.

[pyro]

Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not, but take a look at http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php.

[eyecrave]

Head to http://test.eyecravedvd.com and highlight the "Sweetest Thing, The:..." you'll notice the pop-up contains the <br /> tags for the paragraph breaks. It's grabbing the info from the DB.


This must be done in IE BTW or it won't return the proper value.

[pyro]

Originally posted by eyecrave
you'll notice...Nope, I didn't. Where is it?

[Paul Jr]

Originally posted by pyro
Nope, I didn't. Where is it?
Uhm... yeah, me neither.

[YoN]

I see it..
It's at the title parameter of the anchor tag of "Sweetest Thing, The:..." but it's url encoded so, strip_tags() (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php) wont remove them. right, pyro?

[pyro]

Yes, that is correct (except that it does not appear to be urlencoded (http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php), but rather that it was run through htmlentities (http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php) or htmlspecialchars (http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php)). Conveniently, you can translate them back:

<?PHP
$trans = array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS)); # should be one line - forum formatting error
$str = "&lt;b&gt;bold text&lt;/b&gt;";
$str = strtr($str, $trans);
echo $str;
?>

[eyecrave]

I'll give it a try and let you know the results.

Thanks.

[eyecrave]

I found the solution. It's really quite simple and I stumbled across it by accident.

strip_tags() (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php)

[brendandonhue]

Found it by accident after two people posted it in this thread already :p

[pyro]

Yes, me thinks someone does not read the replies to their questions very well... :rolleyes:

[eyecrave]

Actually, it was only mentioned once, ;) and seeing as he said this

I see it..
It's at the title parameter of the anchor tag of "Sweetest Thing, The:..." but it's url encoded so, strip_tags() wont remove them. right, pyro?

I didn't bother looking into it at the time, which was before Christmas I'd completely forgot about it. I guess I should have said... "The solution was strip_tags()"

I do appreciate the help though :D

Cheers!

[YoN]

Hmmm :( Sorry, I didn't know that strip-tags() also worked on encoded tags.. I wasn't quite sure of that, that's why I had to ask. :confused:
Anyways it's great that you had it fixed.:D

[pyro]

...and either way, I provided the way to convert back, if it did not... ;)