Stripping Tags From a Webpage

Ever need to take a beautifully formed webpage and strip out all the tags and junk to just see the text?

It is really pretty easy with the PHP strip_tags() function. The only catch is that when all the tags are removed, it leaves a pile of attributes. Which if you just need to strip out the text from a simple XML doc or something pretty basic it works great. 

Here is the code. Just name the file justtext.php and have all the fun you can stand.

<?php
if (!isset($_POST["url"])){ 
    echo "Enter URL: <form method='post' action='justtext.php'><input type='text' name='url'><input type='submit' value='submit'></form> ";
      }
else{echo strip_tags(file_get_contents($_POST["url"] ));
      }
?>

iPhone Blogging

I am writing this from my iPhone using an app called Blogspace. It is a free app and seems to have nice features. Like the ability to monitor multiple blogger blogs. Which brings me to the possible downside. I believe it only works with Blogger/Blogspot. So far I am enjoying the ability to blog on the go, if I ever get the urge too. Anyway if you have a Blogger/Blogspot blog and want to blog from your iPhone, you should give Blogspace a try, you can find it in the app store.

Woopra - Real Time Analytics

So last week I said good bye to Joomla and hello to Wordpress for our church's website.(www.boonvilleworshipcenter.org). I really like Wordpress as a content management system. It is a lot simpler than Joomla and more light-weight. I did have to tweak a few things to meet my needs, like making my posts page the listen to sermons page and customizing the template. But overall I really like it.

But that's really not what I want to tell you about. After setting up the new site I decided I needed to run some analytics. I set up Google analytics and am happy with it, but wanted something a little more real time. So I visited my close friend Google and came across http://www.woopra.com. Woopra is real time analytics that has some really cool features. You can log into their site and see live who is on your website. There are the basics like visitors, where they go and how they got to your site. But it is really cool to watch a visitor to your site go from page to page. Then there is the live chat feature. You can start a chat session with someone on your site and ask if they need help. They also have a Wordpress plugin, desktop app and an iPhone app. The best feature of Woopra is that it is free, at least for the first 30,000 hit per month.

If you are looking for a really nice real time analytics for your website you should check out Woopra.