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**evans123** · 09-21-2007, 02:48 PM

I would like to delete text within certain tags for example:

HTML Code:

<head>
<title>Hello This Is So Hard! Not!</title>
</head>
<p>hello</p>

But how would i only delete the tags and text in say <p> it will also be dynamic data!

**rogem002** · 04:25 PM

A preg is a good idea.

PHP Code:


			
$string = ' lolz <p>this is fun</p> lol';
$patterns[0] = '/<p>(.*?)</p>/';
$replacements[0] = ' ';
echo preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $string);

If you want to remove all the tags, use strip_tags

PHP Code:


			
$string = ' lolz <p>this is fun</p> lol';
$string = strip_tags($string);

// If you want to allow certain tags use (in this case, <p> and <a>):
$string = strip_tags($string, '<p><a>');

**dansgalaxy** · 09-21-2007, 05:25 PM

yea what he said