PHP Find and replace certain string pattern

Question

I have piece of html code in php $string . The problem is, I need to remove all "img" and "a href" tags from it. I guess I should use preg_replace function, but how should my patterns look like?

I would like to replace:

"<img some params and address>" with ""

and

"<a href="some random address with unknown length">my text</a>" with "my text"

Charlotte Dunois · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-04 15:50:37Z

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You can use preg_replace with Regular Expressions. Something like this:

$text = preg_replace("/<img (.*?)>/i", "", $text);
$text = preg_replace("/<a (.*?)>(.*?)</a>/i", "$2", $text);

answered Sep 4, 2014 at 15:50

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Machavity Over a year ago

This isn't a good idea. The pony he comes

Charlotte Dunois Over a year ago

@Machavity It doesn't matter since he only wants to replace it with something. He doesn't want to parse HTML to do something later with it.

Machavity Over a year ago

What is the practical difference, though? You're still parsing it with regex, which doesn't work well with nested languages like HTML

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