Question

if i have an html line like:

<a href="your.link-and-stuf.php" title="here your page title and stuf">this word</a>

I want “this word” get out of it with php.
I tried with str_replace() but i didn’t get far. Because the link changes.

So how can i do this?

Answer 1

A simply solution is to use the built in function strip_tags a complex solution would be using regular expressions

Strip Tags Implementation

$str = '<a href="your.link-and-stuf.php" title="here your page title and stuf">this word</a>';
$strip = strip_tags($str);

echo $strip; // this word

Regular Expression Matching

$str = '<a href="your.link-and-stuf.php" title="here your page title and stuf">this word</a>';
$strip = preg_replace("/<\\/?a(\\s+.*?>|>)/", "", $str); // removes only a tags

echo $strip; // this word