Re: Removing link on the fly, but leave link text

On Aug 31, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 14:31 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

Hi, Say I have some text. $text = 'You can logon here: <a href="http://website.com/shop/ index.php?username='.$username.'">http://website.com/shop/index.php? username='.$username.'</a>. This link will take you to your web browser to login.'.$eol; I want to be able to strip the "<a href="http://website.com/shop/ index.php?username='.$username.'">" and </a>. Leaving just the http://website.com/shop/index.php?username='. $username.' text, so it would end up like. $text = 'You can logon here: http://website.com/shop/index.php? username='.$username.'. This link will take you to your web browser to login.'.$eol; I have tried MANY different ways and have no success. Can anyone help me? TIA Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com

strip_tags() will do the job here. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Hi Ash, I tried that, but it did not work. I do not want it to strip all tags, just the <a href=""></a>. so if there was a <p> or <br />. I don't want those removed. There is more text than just what I posted. This is what I am trying currently. This is someones code from a forum that I am trying to adopt. //CODE start function strip_only($str, $tags) { // Thanks Steve

    if(!is_array($tags)) {
        $tags = (strpos($str, '>') !== false ? explode('>', str_replace('<', '', $tags)) : array($tags));
        if(end($tags) == '') array_pop($tags);
    }
    foreach($tags as $tag) $str = preg_replace('#</?'.$tag.'[^>]*>#is', '', $str);
    return $str;

} $str = '<p style="text-align:center">Paragraph</p><strong>Bold</strong><br/><span style="color:red">Red</span><h1>Header</h1>'; echo strip_only($str, array('p', 'h1')); echo strip_only($str, '<p><h1>'); //CODE end I was using it like so. $text = strip_only($text, array('a')); or $text = strip_only($text, '<a>'); But got my results back like: 'You can logon here: href="http://website.com/shop/ index.php?username='.$username.'">http://website.com/shop/index.php? username='.$username.'. This link will take you to your web browser to login.'.$eol; uugh.. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com