How to remove a link from content in php?

Question

How can i remove the link and remain with the text?

text text text. <br><a href='http://www.example.com' target='_blank' title='title' style='text-decoration:none;'>name</a>

like this:

text text text. <br>

i still have a problem.....

$text = file_get_contents('http://www.example.com/file.php?id=name');
echo preg_replace('#<a.*?>.*?</a>#i', '', $text)

in that url was that text(with the link) ...

this code doesn't work...

what's wrong?

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

this is my solutions :

function removeLink($str){
$regex = '/<a (.*)<\/a>/isU';
preg_match_all($regex,$str,$result);
foreach($result[0] as $rs)
{
    $regex = '/<a (.*)>(.*)<\/a>/isU';
    $text = preg_replace($regex,'$2',$rs);
    $str = str_replace($rs,$text,$str);
}
return $str;}

Answer 2

I suggest you to keep the text in link.

strip_tags($text, '<br>');

or the hard way:

preg_replace('#<a.*?>(.*?)</a>#i', '\1', $text)

If you don't need to keep text in the link

preg_replace('#<a.*?>.*?</a>#i', '', $text)