Regex assistance please

[davefu]

I have text with secial tags and html in them. The tags take the format of [TAG]content[/TAG]. I need to strip all of the [TAGS] and whats contained within- I also need to remove the HTML.

I can remove the HTML but the brackets [ and ] are driving me nuts.

Can anyone help?

$newstext = strip_tags($newstext,"");
$newstext = ereg_replace("^http://", "", $newstext);

[Anon]

well you can do something like this:

$newstext = preg_replace("/" . preg_quote("[TAG]") . ".*" . preg_quote("[/TAG]") . "/s", "", $newstext);

(Untestet code...)