PHP mail() > strip_tags() but keep the urls

[davidterranova]

Hi all....

ok i've got a php mail function. Sends as html + plaintext.
It's all working fine except for the fact that the email has links inside it.
I'm using strip_tags to generate the plaintext version, so it just removes all the urls that I need in the email.

e.g.

<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk">beeb</a>

becomes

beeb

I've googled for ages and searched through php.net with no results... Does anyone here by any chance have any idea how to maintain the url part of the <a> tag before stripping it?

[davidterranova]

found it.

// do replacement
	function my_callback( $regs ){
		$attributes = $regs[1];
		$label = end($regs);
		if( preg_match( '/href=("|\')([^"\']*)("|\')/i', $attributes, $regs ) ){
			$href = $regs[2];         

			return "$label ($href)";     

		}else{         

			// no href available         

			return "$label (no link!)";     

		} 
	} 
	$emailcontentPLAIN = preg_replace_callback('/<a(( \w+=("|\')[^"\']*(\"|\'))*)>([^<]+)<\/a>/i', 'my_callback', $emailcontentHTML);