replacing data with preg_replace

[Giddy Rob]

Hi,

 

I have some data in a varible that's html code. I need to remove the span tags. I know i can get rid of the end tag (</span>) by using str_replace. I gather I need to use preg_replace to get rid of the opening tag but I dont have a clue what code I should use. If str_replace had wildcards this is basically what I'm trying to do:

 

$var=str_replace("<span *>","","$html");

 

I want to remove the tag and all of it's contents.

 

Does someone know the correct code to acheive this?

 

Any help would be great.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[effigy]

Try strip_tags.

[Giddy Rob]

thanks for the response.

 

I need to leave some of the tags behind, I just need to get rid of the span tag. Can I do that with strip_tags?

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[effigy]

It only has an allowable_tags option, which may create excess work. Use this:

 

$no_spans = preg_replace('/<span[^>]+>/', '', $has_spans);