Remove specific HTML tags using PHP

There are times when you want to remove a specific HTML tag from an HTML block of text.

This could be an anchor(>) or an image() perhaps.

You can use preg_replace to do this quite quickly and efficiently.

Remove an anchor:

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$content = "Sample text <a href="#">Our anchor</a>. Etc etc";
$content = preg_replace('/<\/?a[^>]*>/','',$content);
//$content is now -> "Sample text. Etc etc";

Remove an image:

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$content = "Sample text <img src="our_image.jpg">. Etc etc";
$content = preg_replace('/<\/?a[^>]*>/','',$content);
//$content is now -> "Sample text. Etc etc";