So, I have a string of text:
string with a bunch of links but i need to simply get rid of these <a href="a.domain.com">Title</a> string with more links and text
I need to get rid of everything from <a to a> where a.domain.com is present (its always the same domain) using PHP preg_replace.
It seems so simple but I can't figure this out >.< or find anywhere that explains regex :/
I always like this site for regexp: http://www.regular-expressions.info/
This isn't a full answer, but I would just match <a [...]>[...]</a> and make sure it's not greedy, so you don't end up tearing everything from the first occurance of <a [...]> all the way to the last </a>.
This was recommended in another forum, you might want to give it a try as well:
$rev= preg_replace('/<a href="([^<]*)">([^<]*)<\/a>/', '', $_POST['rev']);
If you're looking to keep what's inside the <a> tags, you can try the strip_tags() function.
If you want something more complicated, great tutorial for learning regular expressions is http://www.regular-expressions.info/
You can try something like
$no_tags = preg_replace('#<a (.*?)>(.*?)</a>#', '', $text);
but note that this will break if your tags are a more complex than the example you posted.
