php - How to remove <br /> tags and more from a string?

Solution:

<?php

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";
// Allow <p> and <a>
echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');

?>
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http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

Solution:

You can use str_replace like this:

  str_replace("<br/>", " ", $orig );
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preg_replace etc uses regular expressions and that may not be what you want.

Solution:

Ifstr_replace() isnt working for you, then something else must be wrong, because

$string = 'A string with <br/> & "double quotes".';
$string = str_replace(array('<br/>', '&', '"'), ' ', $string);
echo $string;
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outputs

A string with      double quotes .
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Please provide an example of your input string and what you expect it to look like after filtering.

Solution:

To manipulate HTML it is generally a good idea to use a DOM aware tool instead of plain text manipulation tools (think for example what will happen if you enounter variants like<br/>,<br /> with more than one space, or even<br> or<BR/>, which altough illegal are sometimes used). See for example here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplehtmldom/

Solution:

To remove all permutations of br:

<br> <br /> <br/> <br   >
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check out the user contributedstrip_only() function in

http://www.php.net/strip_tags

The "Use the DOM instead of replacing" caveat is always correct, but if the task is really limited to these three characters, this should be o.k.

Solution:

Try this:

$description = preg_replace('/<br \/>/iU', '', $description);
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Solution:

This worked for me, to remove<br/> :

(> is recognised whereas > isn't)

$temp2 = str_replace('<','', $temp);

// echo ($temp2);

$temp2 = str_replace('/>','', $temp2);

// echo ($temp2);

$temp2 = str_replace('br','', $temp2);

echo ($temp2);
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