Question

I have the results from a database that contains images and text. I would like to remove the first image.

Example:

$string = 'This is some text and images 
    <img src="http://linktoimage" border="0">,
    more text and <img src="http://linktoanotherimage"> and so on';

I would like to remove the first image, it is not always the same url.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

$string = 'This is some text and images 
    <img src="http://linktoimage" border="0">,
    more text and <img src="http://linktoanotherimage"> and so on';

print preg_replace('/<img(.*)>/i','',$string,1);

The above should return

This is some text and images 
,
    more text and <img src="http://linktoanotherimage"> and so on

Assuming you know it’ll be prefixed by spaces and a line break, and suffixed by a comma and line break (and you want to remove these, too), you can do

print preg_replace("/\n    <img(.*)>\,\n    /i",'',$string,1);

Which will give you

This is some text and images more text and <img src="http://linktoanotherimage"> and so on