Question

Here is my code

$str="<div>this is the variable</div>";

I want to remove its html tag <div> without using strip_tags.
I need $str="this is the variable"
Because my server is not working with strip_tags.
I know it is possible with preg_replace. but i dont know regex.
So please suggest me the solution.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

$s = "<div>this is the variable</div>";
echo preg_replace("/<div>(.*?)<\/div>/", "$1", $s);
// this is the variable

_{And of course, don’t parse HTML with regex 🙂}

DEMO.