Question

I need to remove all images in a variable using the following pattern. (With PHP).

<div class="float-right image"> 
  <img class="right" src="http://www.domain.com/media/images/image001.png" alt="">
</div>

All the div tags will have an image class, but the float-right might vary. I can’t seem to get the regex working, please help me.

Answer 1

This regex matches your pattern:

(?s)<div class="[^"]*">\W*<img\W*class="[^"]*"\W*src="[^"]*"\W*alt="[^"]*">\W*</div>

I have tested it against several strings. It will work on:

<div class="anything"> 
<img class="blah" src="anything" alt="blah">
</div>

, where you can replace the “blah” and “anything” strings with anything.
Also, the various \W* in the regex allow for different spacing from string to string.

You said you want to do this in PHP.

This will zap all the matched patterns from a page stored in the $my_html variable.

$my_html=preg_replace('%(?s)<div class="[^"]*">\W*<img\W*class="[^"]*"\W*src="[^"]*"\W*alt="[^"]*">\W*</div>%m', '', $my_html);

I think this is what you were looking for?