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Alisha Lamichhane
Alisha Lamichhane

Reputation: 514

Remove <p> tag from HTML content

I trying to get a clean paragraph to be displayed on the website but, because of the <p></p> in the middle of the content I am not getting the expected output. I have tried the following but none of them worked and I am still getting <p></p> around my content. 

$story = "<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p><p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p>";


 1. $story = strip_tags($story, '<p>');
 2. $story=str_ireplace('<p>','',$story);
 3. $story=str_ireplace('</p>','',$story);
 4. $story = preg_replace('/<p\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\/p>/i', '', $story);

Have I missed anything in my code? My expected output would be

Answer: Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6008

Answers (4)

A l w a y s S u n n y
A l w a y s S u n n y

Reputation: 38502

Try this way with str_replace()

<?php
$story = "<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p><p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p>";
$result = str_replace(['<p>','</p>'],['',''],$story);
echo $result;
?>

DEMO : https://3v4l.org/nllPP

OR with strip_tags() to remove all tags, by the way with this method you can specify allowable_tags

$result = strip_tags($story);

Upvotes: 2

SM Imtiaz Hussain
SM Imtiaz Hussain

Reputation: 447

$story = "<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 
    1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a 
    type specimen book.</p><p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text 
    ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled 
    it to make a type specimen book.</p>";

$story = strip_tags($story) ;
echo $story;

there is a built in function that removes all html tags in php. strip_tags()

Upvotes: 1

Nimesh Patel
Nimesh Patel

Reputation: 804

Use str_ireplace() function .

$story = "<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p><p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p>";

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

Demo: https://3v4l.org/W0Qeb

Upvotes: 1

Ropali Munshi
Ropali Munshi

Reputation: 3006

PHP has built-in functions to remove the HTML tags from a string. It is better to use strip_tags() rather than str_replace(), Here is an example

     $story = "<p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p><p>Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.</p>";
;
        $a = strip_tags($story);
        $b = strip_tags($story, "<strong><em>"); // can also pass the tags that you don't want to remove

Upvotes: 2

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