How remove everything inside <table> and <img> tags?

[johnsmith153]

So I have:

 

$text = 'Hello <img src='file' /> <table><tr><td>remove this</td></tr></table> but keep this';

 

... and I want to remove the entire image and entire table.

 

I know strip_tags removes tags but I want the text inside the tags gone as well.

 

Any ideas?

[yoursurrogategod]

Change what $text gets set to in the first place by constructing specific HTML.