Regular Expression Search in Dreamweaver

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:42 +0000

During working on any static site or existing site a lot of times we face a problem that there should be search using wild characters or regular expressions.

For example I have a site at my local where a lot of links:

We need to search all links which are in this category and need to change them in category2.

We usually does that manually i.e. we search /category/ and replace it with /category2/.

There is also another good method using regular expression.

In search box put in find box:

href=”../category/([^<]*)”>

and in replace box put:

href=”../category2/$1″>

Check box of “Use Regular Expressions” should be checked.

If you want to change in whole site than select that option. We prefer to check first in current page so that you can undo if there is something going wrong.

Explanation: ([^<]*) is like a variable. You can use more variables but you should separate them properly in search query. We can put variable value in replace box with $1, $2 etc.

Remove extra Tags from Database Records

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:11:13 +0000

In my database I have many records in which there are html tags and html comments. When I pick description of that data I sometimes got broken html tags as I pick limited characters from that record.

I tried strip_tags function and get rid of problem up to some extent.

$text = '

Test content will go here.

 Other text';
echo strip_tags($text);
//output will be "Test content will go here. Other text"
// and to Allow 
 and 

echo strip_tags($text, '');

//output will be "
Test content will go here.
 Other text"

?>

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Regular Expression Search in Dreamweaver

Remove extra Tags from Database Records