Removing HTML tags and the code in between

[glimbeek]

Hi,

I have the following HTML code:

A line of text, which is of any length. Ohw yes it is!<br /><br />
<h2>And a header</h2>
<img src="image.jpg>With an image and a <a href="/">link</a>. With some more text.

After "cleaning" the code, I want to end up with the following:

A line of text, which is of any length. Ohw yes it is! With an image and a <a href="/">link</a>. With some more text.

AKA, I want to remove all the HTML tags except the link

I searched on Google, this forum and others.
I tried regular expressions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

combined with preg_
I tried

http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

I tried

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

Nothing seemed to work.

In the end I ended up with the following:

$string        = $this->item->fulltext;
$search        = array('/\<(.+)>(.*)>/si'); //Strip out HTML tags
$string        = preg_replace($search, '', $string);

I do believe that using a reg express should be the way to go, but I'm struggling of coming up with one that covers everything I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

With kind regards,
George

 

[jpadie]

You ask different questions at different points in time. So it is difficult to determine what you want. And you still have not answered my question about nested tags.

However if your code works for you then that's great. Nothing more to do.