using removetags function

**QWERTY** · May 10th, 2002, 01:14 PM

When you use the removetags function on a html code it basically removes every html tag there is in the code. This however caused me a little bit of a problem, since it leaves many blank lines after removing the tags. For example this code:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<whatever tag you want>
<script>
</script>

would produce five blank lines. Do you know how to get rid of these blank lines? THanks for any help.

Q

**The Hobo** · May 10th, 2002, 03:25 PM

Use the Trim() function to remove whitespaces at the begining and ending of the string.

scoutt · May 10th, 2002, 05:29 PM

removetags function? where did you get it.

**chrisjk** · May 10th, 2002, 06:03 PM

I would imagine he meant the strip_tags function

If so, I don't get the same behaviour you appear to be having with strip_tags

**QWERTY** · May 10th, 2002, 08:32 PM

it is strip_tags actually. Sorry, I couldn't remember the name before.
If you don't get the same behavior, do you think that it might have something to do with the php settings on the server? Because I certainly do have that problem (on two different servers actually)

**thexchord** · May 10th, 2002, 09:42 PM

chrisjk is probably right in that you don't get that problem with this function, but if the prob remains, do you think you shud do a string replace and replace all "\n" with "" ? essentially, remove the new lines...that are what the blank lines are...

**The Hobo** · May 10th, 2002, 11:19 PM

It could be a difference in PHP versions too. Functions change in different updates.

**QWERTY** · May 11th, 2002, 01:32 AM

I acutally tried that approach (removing \n) - didn't work

scoutt · May 11th, 2002, 01:22 PM

what is the code in question?

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