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scooterlord
scooterlord

Reputation: 15339

preg_replace to remove multiple <a href> elements

probably it's something easy for most of you, but I've been strugling to replace all <a href="url"> anything </a> from a string.

Can someone help me out with this and give me some pointers with documentations and examples? The php.net doesn't help much, struggling to understand.

From what I realize I need to replace:

'<a href=*' up until the '>' character is met.

Replacing the </a> I can manage :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 468

Answers (2)

AbraCadaver
AbraCadaver

Reputation: 78994

Could be simpler, but given the requirements and not knowing of any variations in your string:

$new = preg_replace('/<a href=[^>]+>/', '', str_replace('</a>', '', $string));

Upvotes: 0

Jonah Bishop
Jonah Bishop

Reputation: 12571

What would be wrong with using the strip_tags function in PHP? Are you absolutely trying to use a regular expression (something I would advise against when working with HTML)?

The PHP documentation example does just what you want:

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

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

Results:

Test paragraph. Other text
<p>Test paragraph.</p> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>

Upvotes: 3

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