strip html tag by replacing comma at the end of each tag

[mfaisalwarraich]

Hi everybody,

i have some data which i copied from a web page. its all option values of a select box. now im trying to find a way where i can add a coma at the end of each </option> tag.

here is my code which i took from php.net:

 
$text = '<option value="test 1">test 1</option><option value="test 2">test 2</option>';
        $text = preg_replace('/</',' <',$text);
        $text = preg_replace('/>,/','> ',$text);
        $desc = html_entity_decode(strip_tags($text));
        $desc = preg_replace('/[\n\r\t]/',' ',$desc);
        $desc = preg_replace('/  /',' ',$desc);
        echo preg_replace('/[\ ]/', ',', $desc);
 
 

this is replacing each empty space with a coma not at the end of tag.
please anybody can help me to find out a way where i can do it?

[zorgi]

You don't need all that. You can just use str_replace.
This will add comma on the end of each </option> tag:

echo str_replace("</option>", "</option>,", $text);
 

But what I don't understand is what do you need something like that for?

[mfaisalwarraich]

it worked thanx. well i need it to have a coma separated values and then im gona explode that values and then insert them into database using foreach loop. its adding a coma at the end of text too but i think i can check for a value if its empty before inserting into the database.

[zorgi]

Oups sorry you can just add string rtrim ( string $str [, string $charlist ] ) to fix the problem of the last comma:

echo rtrim(str_replace("</option>", "</option>,", $text), ",");
 

[mfaisalwarraich]

thank you again for ur help.