[SOLVED] Trimming a string

[Fabis94]

How do i trim out a link from a string? Each time the link could be different (for example once it might be <a href="www.somesite.com">AAA</a> and another time it might be <a href="www.othersite.net">BBB</a>). How do i make it delete the whole link?

[premiso]

Do you want to keep the BBB or AAA part? If so strip_tags may be what you are after.

[Fabis94]

I want to remove the whole link.

[The Little Guy]

This worked for me:

 

<?php
function tagStripReplace($content){
return preg_replace("~<a(w*[^>])*>.+?</a>~", '', $content);
}
echo tagStripReplace("<p>I like pizza</p><a href=\"aasdf\">Link</a> this is a <b>link</b>");
?>

 

its a modification of this code: http://beta.phpsnips.com/snippet.php?id=38

[Fabis94]

strip_tags() works well, but it doesn't completely remove the <div> tags. I have places like <div class="something">Sometext</div> and it doesn't remove them. Any ideas?

[thebadbad]

It should. What does your script look like?

[Fabis94]

Well it does remove the <DIV> tag, but not the text in it (the Sometext part). And the function that The Little Guy posted only removes links.

[thebadbad]

Ah, if you want to remove both tags and the contains, try this function from the comments in the manual.

 

Edit: The forum messed it up, so check it via the link.

[Fabis94]

Thanks man, that's just what i needed

[The Little Guy]

I know the topic is solved and all (also didn't realize you wanted to remove divs too) but...

 

I modified my code to remove divs as well. It is shorter that the above link...

If you decided to do this (or even read this) let me know how it works for you!

 

<?php
function tagStripReplace($content){
   return preg_replace("~<(a|div)(w*[^>])*>.+?</(a|div)>~", '', $content);
}
echo tagStripReplace("<div>I like pizza</div><a href=\"aasdf\">Link</a> this is a <div class=\"div\"><b>link</b></div>");
?>