Stripping Anchor Tags from content

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designcouch Reply #1, 13 years, 4 months ago

Hi everyone. I've not played with Evo a lot, and I'm a front-end guy so my PHP skills are quite minimal. However, I'm trying to write a custom snippet to strip all link tags from the [*content*] placeholder in one of my templates. All other html tags should remain. Here is my attempt thus far:

The snippet call:

[!strip_links? &string=`[*content*]`!]

The strip_links snippet:

<?php
$stringtostrip = $scriptProperties['string']; 
$stringtostrip = 
    preg_replace(array('"<a href(.*?)>"', '"</a>"'), array('',''), $stringtostrip);
?>

Please forgive if I'm WAY off, as I said, my skills are not the greatest. If this was Revo, I'd just use an output filter.

Jesse Couch
MODX Aficionado, Front-End Designer & Developer
http://www.designcouch.com

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fourroses666 Reply #2, 13 years, 4 months ago

Need to awnser this very fast, shuting donw here, does [*content:notags*] work?

Evolution user, I like the back-end speed and simplicity

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designcouch Reply #3, 13 years, 4 months ago

Quote from: fourroses666 at May 30, 2013, 11:06 AM

Need to awnser this very fast, shuting donw here, does [*content:notags*] work?

Thanks for the reply, but no it didn't work - that removes all tags, not just anchors.

I've actually devised a solution using a custom PHx modifier. For reference sake, here it is:

The call:

[*content:striplinks*]

The phx:striplinks snippet:

<?php
$string = preg_replace('/<a[^>]+>([^<]+)<\/a>/i','\1',$output);
return $string;
?>

Should be noted that this requires PHx be installed (It is on my site).

Jesse Couch
MODX Aficionado, Front-End Designer & Developer
http://www.designcouch.com