Question

I want to do the following:

I have a string in a database, it is stored with html tags when being inserted there, so for example, I might have the following string:

     <h2>Hello World</h2>
     <p>Cras mattis justo vitae diam sagittis ut porta eros aliquam. 
        Aenean vel nisi et nisl adipiscing blandit. 
        Donec tempor dictum risus a feugiat. 
        Nunc ac purus lectus. Morbi in suscipit ipsum. 
        Ut eu odio eu massa sollicitudin interdum. 
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 
        Maecenas fermentum hendrerit imperdiet.</p>

This is a string I might have in the database, and I want to discard the <h2> part of it.

Now, as far as I know, doing a preg_replace() here, would do the job, but what string pattern do I need to look for?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

See the Remove HTML Tags section on the linked site. E.g.

@<h2[^>]*?>.*?</h2>@siu