Question

I’d like to only remove the anchor tags and the actual urls.
For instance, <a href="http://www.example.com">test www.example.com</a> would become test.

Thanks.

Answer 1

To complement gd1’s answer, this will get all the URLs:

// http(s)://
$txt = preg_replace('|https?://www\.[a-z\.0-9]+|i', '', $txt);
// only www.
$txt = preg_replace('|www\.[a-z\.0-9]+|i', '', $txt);