I'm quite new to php and am trying to replace font tags with span tags or to delete font tags all together as they are not xhtml valid.
I'm using file_get_contents to display current weather from superpages.com. it comes in fine but the code it produces uses font tags and other old tags such as <br>, <u>,<b>. I'd like to make the output xhtml valid but just don't know how to get rid of those old tags I've tried str_replace and preg_replace without great success. The following code did convert two <font></font> lines to <span></span> but other font tags that were not at the start of a line did not change:
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<?php
$content = file_get_contents("http://www.superpages.com/cities/console.pl?T=Augusta&S=ME&Z=MEZ021&W=n120x120");
if ($content !== false) {
// do something with the content
$content = preg_replace('/<font(.*?)>(.*?)<\/font>/i', '<span>$2</span>', $content);
echo $content;
}else {
echo "error processing page"; // an error happened
}
?>
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<DIV style="display:none">
<!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.9.
Copyright 1997-2007 Omniture, Inc. More info available at
http://www.omniture.com -->
<script language="JavaScript" src="//www.superpages.com/inc/s_code.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">
/* You may give each page an identifying name, channel, and hierarchy on the next lines. */
s.channel="Weather Consoles"
s.hier1="City Pages,Weather Pages,Weather Consoles"
<!-- End SiteCatalyst code version: H.9. -->
<!-- SiteCatalyst code version: H.9.
s.pageName=document.title;
var s_code=s.t();if(s_code)document.write(s_code);
</script>
</DIV>
<table width="123" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><img src="http://img.superpages.com/images-yp/decor/images/spacer.gif" width=3></td>
<td colspan="2" valign="middle"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#333333" size="1">
<span>Today: 1/26/09</span><br><img height=40 alt="Very cold" src="http://img.superpages.com/cities/weathericons/verycold.gif" width=40 align="right"><font color="#FF0033" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">High
15°<br>
<span>Low 0°</span><br>
<span>Very cold</span></font></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="4" height="20" align="center" bgcolor="#000066"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#FFFFFF"><a href="divination2.cgi?Z=MEZ021&T=Augusta&S=ME" target="_top"><font color="#FFFFFF"><u>Seven
Day Forecast</u></font></a></font></td>
</tr>
</table>
Any guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Trish