How to replace an anchor with its inner html content?

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Hello how can I replace an anchor with its inner conetent. I mean let's say I have <a someAttrs>someHtmlContent</a> and I want someHtmlContent as output using PHP.

possible duplicate of [How to parse and process HTML/XML with PHP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-to-parse-and-process-html-xml-with-php) — Quentin, Mar 28 '13 at 13:28
Can you elaborate more in details; What are you going to do? You can use javascript in client side. — Seyed Morteza Mousavi, Mar 28 '13 at 16:22
@SeyedMortezaMousavi Well, I have not thought of javascript. I prefer to delever neat HTML to my mobile app. — Mohammad Rahmani, Mar 31 '13 at 14:08

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '13 at 16:02

If you have <a someAttrs>someHtmlContent</a> you can, use strip_tags() function in php to strips any tag in your string and convert to someHtmlContent.

For example:

<?php
echo strip_tags("<a someAttrs>someHtmlContent</a>");
?>

will gives you desired answer. But if you must first find the anchor tags, please refer to previews answers.

Also you can find documentation of strip_tags function here.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Would be good to use this library: http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/manual.htm

or some of the others mentioned here: How do you parse and process HTML/XML in PHP?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Mar 28 '13 at 13:35

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How to replace an anchor with its inner html content?

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