Comments on: Get the Intro: PHP Paragraph Regular Expression

By: Bips

Bips — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:20:25 +0000

Could you please help me to preg match two or more paragraph,I mean all the paragraph from the $post['post_content']

By: webveins.in

webveins.in — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:10:37 +0000

Hi,
I’m in a trouble with php paragraph replace. I’ve following para

{tab=Sed facilisis consequat libero}Fusce eu ligula purus, eu ultricies nisl.

Fusce eu ligula purus, eu ultricies nisl. Curabitur sed leo felis. {/tab}

{tab=Curabitur ultricies sapien}Sed facilisis consequat libero, at tincidunt neque tristique vitae. {/tab}

my aim is to replace {tab=name}something{/tab} to something

Reg exp. i’m using is: /({tab.+?})(.*\S)({\/tab})/s

Its working fine with single line or para. but not with multiline.

Can anybody suggest how to fix it.
Thanks in Advance…

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:33:36 +0000

This worked like a champ, but lets say I wanted to get the rest of the content now, minus the intro paragraph? how would I go about doing that? for example. i want to show the intro paragraph using your code, then create a div that would enclose the rest of the actual content that I would be able to toggle through a read more link.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:45:21 +0000

nice idea, but how do I add the code? how if i just paste it after the_title ? is it works if i do that?

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:32:30 +0000

What does this code actually do? Is there any way to style the first paragraph by separating it first in PHP, then using CSS?

By: Cautious User

Cautious User — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:42:08 +0000

Slight correction to Grouchy Smurf’s regex:

$pattern = “#]*>(.*?)#is”;

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:12:18 +0000

David, are you doing this from within wordpress via a plugin or something, or outside wordpress and just accessing the database?

If the first one there are better ways of doing it by using the WP functions, like the_excerpt_rss()…

By: Grouchy Smurf

Grouchy Smurf — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:37:09 +0000

Has one of you ever read the doc ?

preg_match(‘#]*>(.*)

#isU’, $post['post_content'], $matches);

The “i” modifier allow paragraph tag name to be lower case or upper case. The “s” modifier allow dot metacharacter to match all characters, including newlines. The “U” modifier make pattern really matching only the first paragraph instead of everything between the first p end the last p. Using the “#” delimiter for your pattern make it more readable when dealing with HTML tags and using single quote to declare the pattern string don’t start PHP automatic search for somes vars to replace.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:17:49 +0000

@Jeremy, that’s it! i knew i was forgetting something.

By: Jeremy Parrish

Jeremy Parrish — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:35:09 +0000

@Matt, you probably meant:

preg_match(”/]*>(.*)<\/p>/is”,$post['post_content'],$matches);

Otherwise, it would match everything between the first

tag and the last