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Answer 1

+1 A:

You need to assign the result:

$link = preg_replace('/<a.*?>/i', '', $link);
$link = preg_replace('/<\/a>/i', '', $link);
echo $link;

KennyTM 2010-02-20 09:42:18

strange. i have never done that before and it seemed to work...maybe i am wrong.

weng 2010-02-20 09:43:51

Answer 2

+1 A:

Use this code, to match the text to a specific regex, instead of replacing everything else:

preg_match('/<a.*?>(.+?)<\/a>/i', $link, $matches);

$matches[1] will now contain the text you're looking for.

Douwe Maan 2010-02-20 09:43:46

are you sure? i just want to get the text within the tags, not the whole element which seems to be that im getting with your code.

weng 2010-02-21 00:32:10

My code should give you just the text inside the `<a>` tag... Have you tried `print_r($matches)` to see what's exactly in there?

Douwe Maan 2010-02-21 11:01:58

+1 because your solution does work, though with the given input you could get away with `'/>([^<]+)/'` as the pattern.

mrclay 2010-02-21 14:35:34

Answer 3

+3 A:

Fastest (probably - not tested):

$t = substr($link, strpos($link, '>') + 1, -4);

Clearest:

$t = strip_tags($link);

Basic strip tags w/ regex:

$t = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '', $link);

mrclay 2010-02-20 23:47:23

Short, simple, and reliable. +1

Jakob 2010-02-20 23:53:13

beautiful solution=)

weng 2010-02-21 00:32:36

I should note, this only works if the string you're given only contains that single HTML element. If you were trying to pick an anchor element out of a larger fragment of HTML, you'd want DouweM's solution.

mrclay 2010-02-21 04:13:44

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