iTunes summary and html

sophocles · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 2

My database includes some html styling for other uses, but needs to be stripped for the iTunes summary. I'm also using the same data for the description tag, which can, I believe include html.

Can anyone give me an idea how I might do this, or point me to where I should look in the code?

I'm thinking maybe I need one more if statement here:
$field = str_replace("~~~", "", str_replace("~~~", "", $match[0]));
that would check for that field especially and strip html from it.

Problem with that though, is that it seems it would strip it for both times I use it, not just the iTunes summary.

Thanks for any help

sophocles · Joined: 07 Jul 2010 Posts: 2

Just in case anyone else should be working on it, thought I'd let you know.

If anyone's interested, this is what I did:

In the ItemTemplate.xml I added an extra ~ to the front and back of the <itunes:summary> so that there are 4 instead of 3.

Then in the sql2rss.php script, I added an extra preg_match for that:

Code:

while (preg_match("/~~~~[0-9a-zA-Z_]*~~~~/", $text, $match) !== FALSE) {
if (count($match) == 0) break;
if ($match[0] == "") break;
$field = str_replace("~~~~", "", str_replace("~~~~", "", $match[0]));
if (isset($data[$field])) {
$text = str_replace($match[0], sql2rss_encodeForXML(strip_tags($data[$field])), $text);
} else {
$text = str_replace($match[0], "", $text);
}
}

So this is just like what's there except it searches for the 4 ~ instead of 3, and includes a strip_tags at the appropriate place.

Of course, this needs to be added before the preg_match for 3~

Maybe not the most elegant, but it seems to work.

Thanks