Question

I am extracting a file using $data = file_get_contents("file.html");

I want to replace all html tags from $data using a specified string (e.g : \n) . I can do this for a single line not for entire data .

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could try this

echo preg_replace('#\<(.*?)\>(.*?)\</(.*?)\>#', '[\\1]--[\\2]--[/\\3]', $data);

and change the second parameter.

This would turn

<b>This text is bold</b> to [b]--This text is bold--[/b]

\\1 returns the tag (in the opening brackets), \\2 returns whatever was in between the tags and \\3 returns the tag again (in the closing brackets)

Try playing around with it

EDIT: If you want to replace all HTML tags with \n, then do this

echo preg_replace('#\<(.*?)\>#', '\n', $data);