Question

I am trying to get my site feed working.

I need to select some content and display in my feed. After selecting, i strip tags then display.

The problem is this:

The data still displays as if the tags still exist (but no visible html tag) eg. after stripping, in my source ill have:

Hello (just illustrating)

—-There will be gap in between as if html character still exist, but cant see any when i view my source—–

Hi

How can i fix this . Thanks

EDIT:

To make it clearer, after stripping i still get text like this:

This is my first line

This is my second line with a gap in between the first line and second line as if there is a paragraph tag

UPDATE

i am using this:

$body=substr(strip_tags(preg_replace(‘/\n{2,}/’,”\n”,$row[“post_content”])),0,150);

when i echo $body, it still maintains new lines

Answer 1

you may have a \n which was at the end of the paragraphs after the closing tags you stripped.

preg_replace('/[\p{Z}\s]{2,}/s',' ',$string); 

will strip out all white space, tabs, new lines and double spaces and replace with single space.

\s Matches any white-space character. Equivalent to the Unicode character categories [\f\n\r\t\v\x85\p{Z}]. If ECMAScript-compliant behavior is specified with the ECMAScript option, \s is equivalent to [ \f\n\r\t\v].