str replace for replacing forward slash

hi everyone,

i want to remove </li> inside following html code using str_replace function but cant remove it, and only forward slash is causing this problem. how can i overcome this forward slash issue?

$my_pages='<li>test text</li>';

echo str_replace('</li>', '', $my_pages);

PHP:

quick help please..........

 

Works just fine for me, output is:

<li>test text

Are you sure you're not doing anything else (have you posted all the code)?

 

thanks for reply and also tried with above variable of test text but when i tested separately with original code it didnt replace last closing li
so actual variable will contain following code

<li class="page_item page-item-5"><a title="News" href="http://localhost/matinimages/?page_id=5">News</a></li>

and i dont need the last </li>, which str_replace is not replacing.

 

Still works just the same mate, no </li>. Can you show the actual code you're using? Is the variable coming from $_POST or $_GET? Perhaps you need to remove the slashes if you have magic_quotes enabled?

You should echo out the before and after string.

 

in actual code im setting variable from wordpress code that automatically generates the above variable for me.

$my_pages = wp_list_pages('meta_key=News&meta_value=true&echo=0&title_li=');




i have following code in php.ini file

magic_quotes_gpc = On

should other magic quotes also be on?

Thanks for your time dear.

 

Try

echo str_replace('</li>', '', stripslashes($my_pages));

PHP:

 

still now working

 

thanks a lot for your time dear.............

the problem was at my end......actually i was checking output using firebug rather than from view source.
firebug automatically adds closing tag each time it was removed. so i by chance saw view source and it was replacing it with empty string......


sorry for this disturbance..
but thanks again for your help.

 

Haha that's a funny bug Anyway glad you got it solved.

 

though your problem is solved, still, I shall advise using preg_replace