PHP - More Characters

Last question for the week now. Almost finished.

All I need to do is:

Remove characters from the beginning and the end of a string.

Essentially:

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a:4:{s:4:"full";s:111:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n.jpg";i:96;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-96x96.jpg";i:60;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-60x60.jpg";i:32;s:117:"http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n-32x32.jpg";}
Needs to become

Code: [Select]
http://www.mothernatureinc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/166637_482678026567_509616567_6394964_6868412_n.jpg
Any ideas?

$name = "D'Angelo" 

ok I'm running a mysql query as

$query = " INSERT INTO TEST (ID, NAME) VALUES ('NULL','$NAME')";


If the name = "D'Angelo" the apostrophe would cause it to fail. Is there a way to do this without striping the characters? 

Does anybody know of a function or a way of letting me get the string between whatever characters? Say I had [SOMEWORD] text [SOMEWORD] then how could I go about getting the value "text", please note I'm not trying to make bbcode or similar.

Im not sure f this is the right spot for this or not but...

I have a website that has a content box that has a fixed height and width.

How would i make it so after the box is full it puts a link to read more at the bottom of it? Also images may be used as well.

Its also for a wordpress blog

Hey guys, I have a quick question.

Im going to be making a script that will output the name of a news article along with the poster's name beside it.

There is only a certain amount of space where that stuff can go so I want to know how I can make it so that say after 20 characters, it ends and puts "..." beside it.

Is this possible with php? How would I do it?

or need to extract all tags <p> from a site in Italian

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header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1');

function curl_file_get_contents($url)
{
 $curl = curl_init();
 $userAgent = 'Googlebot/2.1 (http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)';
 
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_URL,$url); //The URL to fetch. This can also be set when initializing a session with curl_init().
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,TRUE); //TRUE to return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly.
 curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,10); //The number of seconds to wait while trying to connect.   
 
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $userAgent); //The contents of the "User-Agent: " header to be used in a HTTP request.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE); //To fail silently if the HTTP code returned is greater than or equal to 400.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, TRUE); //To follow any "Location: " header that the server sends as part of the HTTP header.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, TRUE); //To automatically set the Referer: field in requests where it follows a Location: redirect.
 curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5); //The maximum number of seconds to allow cURL functions to execute.   
 
 $contents = curl_exec($curl);
 curl_close($curl);
 return $contents;
}
$get = curl_file_get_contents($url);


function getTextBetweenTags($tag, $html, $strict=0)
{
/*** a new dom object ***/
$dom = new domDocument;
/*** load the html into the object ***/
if($strict==1)
{
$dom->loadXML($html);
}
else
{
$dom->loadHTML($html);
}

/*** discard white space ***/
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

/*** the tag by its tag name ***/
$content = $dom->getElementsByTagname($tag);

/*** the array to return ***/
$out = array();
foreach ($content as $item)
{
/*** add node value to the out array ***/
$out[] = $item->nodeValue;
}
/*** return the results ***/
return $out;
}


<?php
$content = getTextBetweenTags1('p', $html);

foreach( $content as $item )
{
echo $item.'.';
}
?>

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My problem is that it does not recognize accented characters.///
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"con un certo miglioramento del testo e, cosa più importante, con le firme dei sottoscrittori. scusate la ripetizione. che però, dicevano gli antichi, iuvat. un caro saluto. "

Or need your help
regards,cristian

Hi   I'm trying to limit the number of characters in a postcode field in wordpress gravity form. This is what I have so far but its not working.

add_filter("gform_field_validation_24_47", "custom_validation");
    function custom_validation($result, $value, $form, $field){
		
		if(!$result["is_valid"] && $result["message"] == "Enter full address."){
			$zip = $value["47.5"];
       
           if(strlen($zip) > 10)
{
               $result["is_valid"] = false;
               $result["message"] = "Max 10 characters";
           }
		}
       return $result;
    }

Can anyone tell me what the issue is?   Thanks!

Hi guys I am encoding JSON in PHP but want to know how to escape ' and " thats in the content?

Thanks

Hi,

May I know how can I remove all characters after the first 3 characters after .

e.g : 123.512645124

I want to maintain 123.512 without rounding up.

Please advise and thanks. I wanted to use strstr and trim functions but I am not able to use it to get what I want.. can some guru please assist .. thanks again