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Sukanta Paul
Sukanta Paul

Reputation: 792

Remove HTML codes from string in PHP

I want to remove all HTML codes like " € á ... from a string using REGEX.

String: "This is a string " € á &"

Output Required: This is a string

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6518

Answers (5)

Okonomiyaki3000
Okonomiyaki3000

Reputation: 3696

Try this:

preg_replace('/[^\w\d\s]*/', '', htmlspecialchars_decode($string));

Although it might remove some things you don't want removed. You may need to modify the regex.

Upvotes: 0

s.webbandit
s.webbandit

Reputation: 17028

preg_replace('#&[^;]+;#', '', "This is a string " € á &");

Upvotes: 0

Zuber Surya
Zuber Surya

Reputation: 869

you can try

$str="This is a string " € á &";
$new_str = preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i",'',$str);
echo $new_str;

i hope this may work

DESC:

& - starting with 
# - some HTML entities use the # sign 
?[a-z0-9] - followed by
;- ending with a semi-colon
i - case insensitive.

Upvotes: 2

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 141935

$str = preg_replace_callback('/&[^; ]+;/', function($matches){
    return html_entity_decode($matches[0], ENT_QUOTES) == $matches[0] ? $matches[0] : '';
}, $str);

This will work, but won't strip € since that is not an entity in HTML 4. If you have PHP 5.4 you can use the flags ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5 to have it work correctly with HTML5 entities like €.

Upvotes: 0

ulentini
ulentini

Reputation: 2412

If you're trying to totally remove entities (ie: not decoding them) then try this:

$string = 'This is a string " € á &';

$pattern = '/&([#0-9A-Za-z]+);/';
echo preg_replace($pattern, '', $string);

Upvotes: 0

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