Remove Image with PHP

[ngrant]

Hey, I am parsing a rss feed from yahoo (rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/politics) and am trying to strip out the image tags from the feed. I am awful at regexp but I have been trying various expressions and preg_replace to remove them.

/<img[^>]+>/is
/<img[^>]*>/i
/<img[^>]* src=\"([^\"]*)\"[^>]*>/i
/(\<img src=\"\w{0,}\"( ?(\w{0,}=\"\w{0,}\") ?)*\>)/

these are some of the expressions i have been using and the actually code I am using is

preg_replace($regExp, "", $string);

[edited by: eelixduppy at 10:37 pm (utc) on Feb. 2, 2009]
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[Morgenhund]

Not sure why, but when I look at the source of that RSS feed I see all the tag opening brackets actually do not use "<", but rahter "&#60;", so your PREGs should actually look like that:
/&#60;img[^>]+>/is

Hope that helps!

[ngrant]

I checked that but it doesn't seem to help, I thought that was strange as well.

[coopster]

Try for both, either the html entity for the less than sign, or the sign itself.

$pattern = '/(&#60;¦<)img[^>]+>/'; 
$subject = preg_replace($pattern, '', $subject);

Don't forget that the forum breaks the pipe character, you need to retype that if you copy/paste from here.

[phparion]

@coopster: your pattern won't work if the image tag is xhtml i.e ending on /> I tried same regex on my xhtml where I fetch latest blog posts from wordpress blog and display on the main site homepage but it was failing so I modified it to the following

$pattern = '/(&#60;¦<)img[^>]+\/>/';

and it worked.

[edited by: eelixduppy at 8:58 pm (utc) on Feb. 17, 2009]
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[coopster]

The pattern should work for either HTML or XHTML, without your modification. The "one or more of anything that is not the greater than sign"

[^>]+

includes the slash.

[rob7591]

if you can't figure out what that first character is, why don't you try this:
$pattern = '/.img[^>]+>/i';

and if you wanna figure out what it is, you can try:
$pattern = '/(.)img[^>]+>/i';
and preg_match it with a backreference to that group.. just an idea.