[RESOLVED] how to strip only one tag with strip_tags()

[Fking]

Well i want to strip only the <a> tags from html code and keep ALL other tags

Is there a different way to do that except just listing all possible other tags as second argument?

If there is no other way, where i can find list of all html tags 🙂

[bpat1434]

Only allowing <a></a>? You may have to use preg_match to find those that aren't <a.?>.?<\/a> tags 😉

i.e.:

$string = '<a href="www.mysite.com">A Link</a><b>Some bold text</b><p>A Paragraph</p><a>A blank Link</a>';

$pattern = '#\<a.*?\>(.*?)\<\/a\>#si';
$replace = '$1';
echo $string.'<br />
';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $string);

That produces:

<a href="www.mysite.com">A Link</a><b>Some bold text</b><p>A Paragraph</p><a>A blank Link</a><br />
A Link<b>Some bold text</b><p>A Paragraph</p>A blank Link

[Fking]

thanks for the code dude
but i guess i haven't express myself clear enough

I want to remove all kinds of links and leave all the other tags

[NogDog]

$newString = preg_replace('#</?a(\s[^>]*)?>#i', '', $string);

[Fking]

NogDog wrote:

$newString = preg_replace('#</?a(\s[^>]*)?>#i', '', $string);

thanks dude! Works perfect! 🙂