php - How to remove html tag using regular expression? [duplicate]

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value of $attributes['st_title'] is <a href="/physical-design-engineers">Physical Design Engineers</a>

I want to remove <a href="/physical-design-engineers"> and </a>. The final expected output is: $attributes['st_title'] = Physical Design Engineers

I am trying as follows:

    $pattern[0] = "/<a.[^>]+>/";
    $pattern[1] = '/</a>/';

    $replacement[1] = '';
    $replacement[0] = '';
    $attributes['st_title'] = preg_replace( $pattern, $replacement, $attributes['st_title'] );

But it sets $attributes['st_title'] as empty. Any idea?

Better option ~ How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP? — Phil
– Phil, Commented Mar 27, 2018 at 6:01

Death-is-the-real-truth · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27 06:06:36Z

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Since you want text only from the link, so use strip_tags()

echo strip_tags($text);

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edited Mar 27, 2018 at 6:06

answered Mar 27, 2018 at 6:01

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Death-is-the-real-truth · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27 06:28:36Z

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Use php strip_tags()

or

preg_replace("/<.*?>/", "", $attributes['st_title']);

edited Mar 27, 2018 at 6:28

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