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

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:01 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > 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. > >> > >> > >> $text = 'You can logon here: [�J/(jꈭ��d > >> ���http://website.com/shop/index.php? > >> username='.$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; > } > > $str = '<p > style="text-align:center">Paragraph</p><strong>Bold</ > strong><br/><span > strong>style="color:red">Red</span><h1>Header</h1>'; > > echo strip_only($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 > Look at the second argument to strip_tags() which allows you to specify a list of allowable tags. It will do what you want, you just need to look at the manual. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk