Replacing <a> tag with <b> tag using PHP

Question

OK, I have a section of code with things like:
<a title="title" href="http://example.com">Text</a>

I need to reformat these somehow so that they become:
<b>Text</b>

There are at least 24 links being changed, and they all have different titles and hrefs. Thanks in advance, Austin.

Answer 1

Although not optimal, you can do this with regular expressions:

$string = '<a title="title" href="http://example.com">Text</a>';

$string = preg_replace("/<a\s(.+?)>(.+?)<\/a>/is", "<b>$2</b>", $string);

echo($string);

This essentially says, look for a part of the string that has the form <a*>{TEXT}</a>, copy the {TEXT}, and replace that whole matched string with <b>{TEXT}</b>.

Answer 2

Try this,

$link = '<a title="title" href="http://example.com">Text</a>';
echo $formatted = "<b>".strip_tags($link)."</b>";

Check this link out as well, I think this is what you are looking for.