Replace url with name

[EchoFool]

Hey,

 

How would you do a replacement on a string which changes ?

 

For example:

 

<a href="users.php?id=3">Username</a>

 

How would you use str_replace to take out <a href="users.php?id=3"> AND </a>

 

Note - the id=3 could be any random number so i can't use exact strings to replace cos the value could be different.

 

Thanks hope you can help.

[joel24]

$string = '<a href="users.php?id=3">Username</a>';
$string = strip_tags($string);

 

will work, but it will remove all other HTML tags unless you add them as an exception.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

[EchoFool]

Yeh thats the thing i dont want it to strip all html

[joel24]

I'm sure you could do it easily with preg_replace or using strpos() and str_replace() and substr().

 

 

something like this would work, but i wouldn't rely on it. i'd go for preg_replace if someone experienced with regular expressions is kind enough to share their knowledge?

$string = '<a href="users.php?id=3">Username</a>';

//get rid of closing </a>
$string = str_replace("</a>", "", $string);

//get position of end of anchor tag. add 2 to str pos because it returns start of ">
$closePos = strpos($string, '">') + 2;
$string = substr($string, $closePos, 100);

[newbtophp]

$str = preg_replace('~<a[^>]+>(.+?)</a>~i', '$1', $str);