Question

I echoing the contents of a table using foreach, the problem I am getting is the date is always at the top of the page, so when looking at my one line preview I just get the date and nothing more. If I remove the date it is fine and you can see the first line of the template. So I am trying to remove the date tag from the preview using for each.
I am using the following code, but it doesnt seem to be doing a lot, as far as I can see I have things right ?.

    echo '<div class="messagerow">';
// this pulls the message from the foreach above it
    $emlmsg = $row->emailformmessage;
// I am trying to remove the date by replacing it with the blank contents of this string value.
    $dateremove = '';
    // This is the str_replace that is supposed to remove the {date} tag along with the paragraph tags it is wrapped in.
$emlmsgfiltered = str_replace(array('<p>{date}</p>'), array($dateremove), $emlmsg);
// I then echo the filtered message here, minus the date....but its still there ??
echo $emlmsgfiltered;
echo '</div>';

Edit >>>>>>

 As requested, this is the html code

<p>{date}</p>

<p>Dear {name} thankyou for your order, if you need any more oil we will be happy to provide you with     a competitive quote.</p>

<p>Kind Regards</p>

{createdby}

Answer 1

sorry . should have been an ansewr, not a comment:

why the array around the first value in str_replace()? are you supposed to be referencing an array element

str_replace('<p>{date}</p>',$dateremove,$emlmsg)