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Tadeusz Majkowski
Tadeusz Majkowski

Reputation: 642

Remove everything inside two BBcode-like tags

I have the following string stored in a variable (which is taken from a database)

$string = 'some simple text i need [link href="http://www.somelink.com/..."]some link i dont need here[/link] some simple text i need too.';

I'm trying to remove the following part from the string:

[link href="http://www.somelink.com/..."]some link i dont need here[/link]

This is the final output I wish to have:

some simple text i need some simple text i need too.

How can I accomplish this using PHP?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Shankar Narayana Damodaran
Shankar Narayana Damodaran

Reputation: 68526

Use this regex ~\[link(.*?)\[\/link]~

<?php
$string = 'some simple text i need [link href="http://www.somelink.com/..."]some link i dont need here[/link] some simple text i need too.';
echo $str = preg_replace("~\[link(.*?)\[\/link]~","", $string);

OUTPUT :

some simple text i need some simple text i need too.

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Upvotes: 3

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