Question

I need to strip all <br /> and all ‘quotes’ (") and all ‘ands’ (&) and replace them with a space only …

How can I do this? (in PHP)

I have tried this for the <br />:

   $description = preg_replace('<br />', '', $description);

But it returned <> in place of every <br />…

Thanks

Answer 1

To manipulate HTML it is generally a good idea to use a DOM aware tool instead of plain text manipulation tools (think for example what will happen if you enounter variants like <br/>, <br /> with more than one space, or even <br> or <BR/>, which altough illegal are sometimes used). See for example here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/