PHP - Remove <span> tag from string

Question

I have a string with this html:

<div>
  <span> 1 </span>
  <a href="#"> <span> 2 </span> </a>
  <a href="#"> <span> 3 </span> </a>
  <a href="#"> <span> 4 </span> </a>
  ....
</div>

how do I remove the <span> tags from inside the links (<a>) ?

Answer 1

http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Answer 2

$string = str_replace("<span>", "", $string);
$string = str_replace("</span>", "", $string);

Answer 3

If you just want to remove span tags inside an a tag and your format is exactly what you posted then the following fits that spec.

$string = str_replace('<a href="#"> <span>', '<a href="#">', $string);
$string = str_replace("</span> </a>", "</a>", $string);

If the format changes at all, you may require a regular expression or use DomDocument to parse the HTML.

Answer 4

it seems like you are trying to remove the link from the current page. If so you might want to take a look at this tutorial. This can be accomplished 3 ways. Using javascript, css, or php and css. If so you may want to look at his tutorial.

Answer 5

Do you want to also remove the contents of the <span> tags? If so, try this:

$string = preg_replace("/<span[^>]+\>/i", "", $string);

Otherwise, the str_replace method that nute posted will work fine.