how to remove links from a html content using php

Question

I have the following html content:

<p>My name is <a href="way2project">way2project</a></p>

Now I want this text as <p>My name is way2project</p>

Is there any way to do this? Please help me thanks

I used preg_replace but in vain.

Thanks again

I'm not sure I understand. Do you want your hyperlink to appear like normal text? Please make your question more clear. — gkiar
– gkiar, Commented Jun 25, 2012 at 19:45
So $blurb = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '', $blurb); doesnt work? — Sammaye
– Sammaye, Commented Jun 25, 2012 at 19:45
You may want to read into: DOMDocument. Regex is (most of the time) not suited to parse HTML. — PeeHaa
– PeeHaa, Commented Jun 25, 2012 at 19:57
possible duplicate of How to remove an HTML element using the DOMDocument class — PeeHaa
– PeeHaa, Commented Jun 25, 2012 at 20:05

Ibu · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-25 19:45:41Z

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You can use the strip tags function

$string = '<p>My name is <a href="way2project">way2project</a></p>';

echo strip_tags($string,'<p>');

note the second parameter is the list of allowed tags you wont to ignore.

answered Jun 25, 2012 at 19:45

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jackwanders Over a year ago

also, strip_tags will strip ALL HTML tags. Sounds like he only wants to remove anchor tags

Ibu Over a year ago

@jackwanders yes it does, but you can use the second parameter to take care of that.

jackwanders Over a year ago

the second parameter lets you list allowable tags. it would work for this specific example, yes. But to reliably use this with arbitrary chunks of HTML, he'd have to list ALL html tags except for <a> in that second parameter

MultiDev · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-25 19:46:18Z

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This seems strange, but not knowing the complete scope of your issue and seeing that you want to do this in PHP, you can try:

$origstring = '<p>My name is <a href="way2project">way2project</a></p>';
$newstring = str_replace('<a href="way2project">way2project</a>', 'way2project', $origstring);

echo $newstring;

answered Jun 25, 2012 at 19:46

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manuskc · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-25 19:54:01Z

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Checkout Simple Html Dom Parser

$html = str_get_html('<html><body>Hello!<a href="http://stackoverflow.com">SO</a></body></html>');
echo $html->find('a',0)->innertext; //prints "SO"

edited Jun 25, 2012 at 19:54

answered Jun 25, 2012 at 19:46

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Piotr Olaszewski · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-25 19:46:16Z

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strip_tags you can use this, to remove html tags.

answered Jun 25, 2012 at 19:46

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