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spsaravananct
spsaravananct

Reputation: 394

How do I remove <p> tag and its content from HTML using php

Below is the text I need to remove <p> tags from 

<p> Addiction, stress and subjective wellbeing</p> 
<p> The need and significance of traditional shop lot pavements in the context of town conservation in Malaysia</p> 
<p> The role of wage and benefit in engaging employee commitment</p>

I tried this

$title= preg_replace('#<p>(.*?)</p>#', '', $title['result']);**

But still am Getting <p> tags, any ideas?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 63663

Answers (9)

Ilia Ross
Ilia Ross

Reputation: 13404

You should use this regular expression to catch <p> tag and all of its content:

'/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i'

Working example to catch and remove <p> tag and all of its content:

$title = "<div>Text to keep<p class='classExample'>Text to remove</p></div>";
$result = preg_replace('/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i', '', $title);
echo $result;

Please see live demo on Codepad

If you want to use regular expressions to parse HTML - then you will not be able to do this.

Read more about your matter here: How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?

Upvotes: 22

Aswani
Aswani

Reputation: 1

$data1=html_entity_decode("<p>your text with p tag</p>");
$data2=str_ireplace('<p>',' ',$data1);
$data3=str_ireplace('</p>',' ',$data2); 
echo $data3;

Upvotes: 0

Nicholas
Nicholas

Reputation: 87

Here is another example to strip all <p> tags with or without the closing / after the first <

$content = '<p> Addiction, stress and subjective wellbeing</p>
<p> The need and significance of traditional shop lot pavements in the context of town conservation in Malaysia</p>
<p> The role of wage and benefit in engaging employee commitment</p>';
    $new_content = preg_replace('/<(|\/)p>/', '', $content);
    dump($new_content);
    die('HERE');

Output

Upvotes: 0

CGN
CGN

Reputation: 589

This code removes one p-tag:

function parse($html) {
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    @$dom->loadHTML($html);
    $ps = $dom->getElementsByTagName('p');
    //die('<pre>'.print_r($ps,1).'</pre>');
    if ($ps->length === 1){
        $p = $ps->item(0);
        return $p->nodeValue;
    } else {
        return '';
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Ramesh
Ramesh

Reputation: 1555

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";

// Allow p and a tag
echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');

Upvotes: 2

MD SHAHIDUL ISLAM
MD SHAHIDUL ISLAM

Reputation: 14523

Try:

If you want to remove <p> tag only

$html = "
<p> Addiction, stress and subjective wellbeing</p> 
<p> The need and significance of traditional shop lot pavements town</p> 
<p> The role of wage and benefit in engaging employee commitment</p>
";

echo strip_tags($html);

If you want to remove <p> tags and its content

$html = preg_replace('#\<p>[{\w},\s\d"]+\</p>#', "", $html);

Upvotes: 7

Porta Shqipe
Porta Shqipe

Reputation: 866

echo "<div id=\"main_content\">" . strip_tags($row[main_content]) . "</div>";

Upvotes: 3

Tarun
Tarun

Reputation: 3165

just to remove p tags you can do this 

$text=str_ireplace('<p>','',$text);
$text=str_ireplace('</p>','',$text);

Upvotes: 6

moonwave99
moonwave99

Reputation: 22817

If you just need to strip all the markup, go with strip_tags().

Upvotes: 2

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