PHP Remove JavaScript

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I am trying to remove JavaScript from the HTML.

I can't get the regular expression to work with PHP; it's giving me an null array. Why?

<?php
$var = '
<script type="text/javascript"> 
function selectCode(a) 
{ 
   var e = a.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName(PRE)[0]; 
   if (window.getSelection) 
   { 
      var s = window.getSelection(); 
       if (s.setBaseAndExtent) 
      { 
         s.setBaseAndExtent(e, 0, e, e.innerText.length - 1); 
      } 
      else 
      { 
         var r = document.createRange(); 
         r.selectNodeContents(e); 
         s.removeAllRanges(); 
         s.addRange(r); 
      } 
   } 
   else if (document.getSelection) 
   { 
      var s = document.getSelection(); 
      var r = document.createRange(); 
      r.selectNodeContents(e); 
      s.removeAllRanges(); 
      s.addRange(r); 
   } 
   else if (document.selection) 
   { 
      var r = document.body.createTextRange(); 
      r.moveToElementText(e); 
      r.select(); 
   } 
} 
</script>
';

   function remove_javascript($java){
   echo preg_replace('/<script\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/script>/i', "", $java);

   }    
?>
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8 Answers

this should do it:

echo preg_replace('/<script\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/script>/is', "", $var);

/s is so that the dot . matches newlines too.

Just a warning, you should not use this type of regexp to sanitize user input for a website. There is just too many ways to get around it. For sanitizing use something like the http://htmlpurifier.org/ library

user_374860

This might do more than you want, but depending on your situation you might want to look at strip_tags.

user_4760

Here's an idea

while (true) {
  if ($beginning = strpos($var,"<script")) {
    $stringLength = (strpos($var,"</script>") + strlen("</script>")) - $beginning;
    substr_replace($var, "", $beginning, $stringLength);
  } else {
    break
  }
}
user_1982590

In your case you could regard the string as a list of newline delimited strings and remove the lines containing the script tags(first & second to last) and you wouldn't even need regular expressions.

Though if what you are trying to do is preventing XSS it might not be sufficient to only remove script tags.

user_4039390

You can remove any JavaScript code from HTML string with the help of following PHP function

You can read more about it here: https://mradeveloper.com/blog/remove-javascript-from-html-with-php

function sanitizeInput($inputP)
{
    $spaceDelimiter = "#BLANKSPACE#";
    $newLineDelimiter = "#NEWLNE#";
                                
    $inputArray = [];
    $minifiedSanitized = '';
    $unMinifiedSanitized = '';
    $sanitizedInput = [];
    $returnData = [];
    $returnType = "string";

    if($inputP === null) return null;
    if($inputP === false) return false;
    if(is_array($inputP) && sizeof($inputP) <= 0) return [];

    if(is_array($inputP))
    {
        $inputArray = $inputP;
        $returnType = "array";
    }
    else
    {
        $inputArray[] = $inputP;
        $returnType = "string";
    }

    foreach($inputArray as $input)
    {
        $minified = str_replace(" ",$spaceDelimiter,$input);
        $minified = str_replace("\n",$newLineDelimiter,$minified);

        //removing <script> tags
        $minifiedSanitized = preg_replace("/[<][^<]*script.*[>].*[<].*[\/].*script*[>]/i","",$minified);

        $unMinifiedSanitized = str_replace($spaceDelimiter," ",$minifiedSanitized);
        $unMinifiedSanitized = str_replace($newLineDelimiter,"\n",$unMinifiedSanitized);

        //removing inline js events
        $unMinifiedSanitized = preg_replace("/([ ]on[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,}=\".*\")|([ ]on[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,}='.*')|([ ]on[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,}=.*[.].*)/","",$unMinifiedSanitized);

        //removing inline js
        $unMinifiedSanitized = preg_replace("/([ ]href.*=\".*javascript:.*\")|([ ]href.*='.*javascript:.*')|([ ]href.*=.*javascript:.*)/i","",$unMinifiedSanitized);

                                    
        $sanitizedInput[] = $unMinifiedSanitized;
    }

    if($returnType == "string" && sizeof($sanitizedInput) > 0)
    {
        $returnData = $sanitizedInput[0];
    }
    else
    {
        $returnData = $sanitizedInput;
    }
                                
    return $returnData;
}
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