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

[Karl DeSaulniers <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
> >
> >
> > $text = 'You can logon here: http://website.com/shop/index.php?
> > username='.$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 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