What is the best way to strip links from product description?

[Roaddoctor]

A little advice please...

 

I am wanting to parse my product description to a new page, but stripped of any hyperlinks, while retaining all other html. Is there a better way than this?

 

at the moment I took

 

<?php echo stripslashes($product_info['products_description']); ?>

 

and changed to

 

<?php echo stripslashes(strip_tags($product_info['products_description'],'<p><br><img><b><strong><h2><h3><em><ul><li>')); ?>

 

Is there a more elegant solution?

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

use preg_replace function

[♥bruyndoncx]

use preg_replace function

more performant, probably, more elegant, I doubt it ...

[Roaddoctor]

like this?

 

<?php echo stripslashes(preg_replace('/<a[^>]*>(.*)<\/a>/iU','', $product_info['products_description'])); ?>

[multimixer]

Why not use jQuery on the target page?

 

$("a").replaceWith(function() { return $(this).contents(); });

[burt]

If you want to strip the link but keep the text, eg go from

<a href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

to

google

use

strip_tags

.

[Roaddoctor]

Thanks all! As I was reading around on this there was lots of advice to not use regex to parse html... so I was debating which way to go. Burt what you posted is what I had in mind initially. I had not cosidered jquery, but interesting. Always multiple ways to get to the end.

Can I consider the syntax in the first post correct?

 

Thanks much for the confirm.