Please give me some help with preg_replace regex

Please give me some help with preg_replace regex
I have this html

<a title="Timberland Earthkeepers tv commercial" href="http://www.adsneeze.com/clothing-footwear/timberland-earthkeepers-tv-commercial">
<img width="300" src="http://www.adsneeze.com/files/media-front/Timberland-Earthkeepers-ad.jpg"/>
</a>
The main idea of advertisement is that if you help the nature, the nature ... 
more ->
<a title="Timberland Earthkeepers tv commercial" href="http://www.adsneeze.com/clothing-footwear/timberland-earthkeepers-tv-commercial">Timberland Earthkeepers tv commercial</a>

<div class="feedflare">
<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?a=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:yIl2AUoC8zA">
<img border="0" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"/>
</a>
<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?a=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo">
<img border="0" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?i=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"/>
</a>
</div>

<p>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMoSsD67yAdsBepwwwwfo5M/0/da">
<img border="0" ismap="true" src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMwwwwsBep7d4ITfo5M/0/di"/>
</a>
<br/>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMowwww7d4ITfo5M/1/da">
<img border="0" ismap="true" src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZqwqwqAdsBep7d4ITfo5M/1/di"/>
</a>
</p>

<img height="1" width="1" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/AdSneeze-Ads/~4/CXhlKtszp50"/>

Code (markup):

I want to remove

<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?a=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:yIl2AUoC8zA">
<img border="0" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"/>
</a>
<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?a=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo">
<img border="0" src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/AdSneeze-Ads?i=CXhlKtszp50:4hHyLndkL4w:F7zBnMyn0Lo"/>
</a>

Code (markup):

and

<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMoSsD67yAdsBepwwwwfo5M/0/da">
<img border="0" ismap="true" src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMwwwwsBep7d4ITfo5M/0/di"/>
</a>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZCMowwww7d4ITfo5M/1/da">
<img border="0" ismap="true" src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/DoZqwqwqAdsBep7d4ITfo5M/1/di"/>
</a>

Code (markup):

.

Please help.

 

Something like this should work:

.*(<div class="feedflare">.*<\/div><p>.*<\/p>).*

Just take out everything between the div and p tags.

Peace,

 

Where is the best place to learn about the parameters that go into preg_replace. I have looked at the phpmanual site, and it explains the function, but not about the parameters and how it works. Thanks.

 

Search on Google for "regexp" (regular expressions) - that is what is being used.

 

1. . -> represents ANY one character
2. [a-z] -> represents ANY characters from a to z, can also be in the form [A-Z],[0-9],[a-z -_]
3. .* -> will match 0 or more occurrences of any character, can also use [a-z]* etc..
4. .+ -> will match 1 or more occurrences of any characters, can also use [0-9]+ etc..
5. [a-z]{2} -> will match only 2 occurrences of characters from a to z
6. [a-z]{2,3} -> will match only 2 to 3 occurrences of characters from a to z
7. ^[a-z][0-9]+ -> ^ acts as an anchor, the beginning must be a one letter from a to z, then any number >1 of numbers.
8. $\.php -> Acts like $, but at the end of a match - in this ex, it will return all php extensions

\ -> an escape string, like the $ examples, the following must be escaped: . + * ^ $ {} () if you want to use them as characters and not parameters, to use the \ string, it will also need to be escaped like: \\

Add a parameter in () and it will return that match for you, ex.: ([0-9]{4}), will return any numbers of size 4.

The above is true for most languages beside PHP.

For PHP, when using a regular expression, they need to be in this format:

'CHARACTER EXPRESSION CHARACTER MODIFIER'
​

• Where CHARACTER is something like /| etc.., they just need to match: /[a-z]/ or |[a-z]|
• EXPRESSION is the regular express itself, [a-z]+
• MODIFIER is a modifier to tell the parser what and how to do, examples are here:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

Peace,