[SOLVED] eliminate links

[AV1611]

$str='this is a string with some <a href="whatever.com">Some Link< / a > to a site';

 

$str=somephpfunction($str);

 

echo $str;

// this is a string with ***LINK DELETED*** to a site

 

How would I do that?

[JasonLewis]

Well if you want to remove any links I suppose you could do it like so:

 

preg_replace("#<a href=['\"]?.*?['\"]?>.*?</a>#i", "-LINK REMOVED-", $str);

[AV1611]

Thanks.

 

I guess I asked the wrong question though...

I don't really wanna eliminate the link. I either want the part between the <a>THIS</a> or maybe href="THIS"

That's a much harder problem... the second one is bad cause it may have " ' or other characters encapsulating the link...

[thebadbad]

If you want to keep the link text, but remove the actual anchor tag, this will work:

 

preg_replace('~<a.*?>(.*?)</a>~is', '$1', $str);

 

Or if you want to replace the whole link with the URL specified with the href attribute (i.e. a non-clickable link):

 

preg_replace('~<a.*?href=[\'"]?(.*?)[\'"]?.*?>.*?</a>~is', '$1', $str);

[AV1611]

one last question:

 

$str="this is a BIG word";

echo preg_replace('/\[size.*?\](.*?)\[/size\]' , '\\1' , $str);

 

//this is a BIG word

 

What did I do wrong? I just wanna drop the bbcode in this case...

[thebadbad]

You forgot a closing pattern delimiter (and used one - the forward slash - unescaped in the regex). I think it's easier to use an odd character like ~:

 

preg_replace('~\[size.*?\](.*?)\[/size\]~is' , '\\1' , $str);

[thebadbad]

BTW, the i and s I added after the closing pattern delimiter are pattern modifiers. The i makes the search case insensitive, and the s makes the dot match new line characters also (in case there's a line break in the BB code).