<', '><', $string);
// setup search strings from possible allowed values
$rootElementUpper = strtoupper( $rootElement );
$rootElementLower = strtolower( $rootElement );
$tagOpen = array(
'<' . $rootElementLower . '>' ,
'<' . $rootElementLower . ' ' ,
'<' . $rootElementUpper . '>' ,
'<' . $rootElementUpper . ' '
);
$tagClose = array( '' , '' );
// Set up tags for append / prepend / break replacement
$prependTag = '<' . $rootElementLower . '>';
$appendTag = '';
// Test if string starts with root tag, ignoring attributes
$hasRoot = false;
foreach( $tagOpen as $tag ){
$length = strlen($tag);
if ( substr($string, 0, $length) === $tag ) $hasRoot = true;
}
if ( !$hasRoot ) $string = $prependTag . $string;
// Test if string ends with p tag
$hasRoot = false;
foreach ( $tagClose as $tag ){
$length = strlen($tag);
$start = $length * -1; //negative
if ( substr($string, $start) === $tag ) $hasRoot = true;
}
if ( !$hasRoot ) $string .= $appendTag;
// If replace break flag is true then replace breaks
if ($replace_br) {
// setup replacement string
$brReplace = $appendTag . $prependTag;
// setup search string
$brsearch = array ( '
','
','
','
','
','
','
','
');
foreach ( $brsearch as $term ) $string = str_replace( $term, $brReplace, $string);
}
//clean up multiple line returns
while ( strpos( $string , $brReplace . $brReplace ) ) {
$string = str_replace( $brReplace . $brReplace , $brReplace, $string);
}
return $string;
}//end of function
?>