regex help

[the-botman]

hey guys ok see i need to replace everything inbetween this to tags and replace it with just a <br>

p class="potMatchMenuText"> anything can be here more text or tags untill here<p class="potMatchHeading"> 

this is  how it might show

<p class="potMatchMenuText"><span class="cardMenu">Scorecard |</span>
<span class="cardMenu">Commentary |</span>
<span class="cardMenu">3D animation |</span>
<span class="cardMenu">Article index (15) |</span>
<span class="cardMenu">Photo index (60)</span>
</p>
<p class="potMatchHeading">

Thanks in advance Botman

[the-botman]

will this work?

$tags = array('<p class="potMatchMenuText">','</p>');
$getmydata = str_replace($tags, '', $getmydata);

[salathe]

Before posting a regular expression, can I just check that your desired output is:

 

<p class="potMatchMenuText"><br><p class="potMatchHeading">

 

I only ask because it looks like that will break the HTML structure!

[the-botman]

i got it

$pattern = '%<p class="potMatchMenuText">(.+?)</p>%is';	
$getmydata = preg_replace($pattern, '$2', $getmydata);

thanks

[cags]

Can I ask why your using $2 as the replacement pattern? Since you don't have a second capture group you are essential just replacing with a null string, so why not just use ''?