Strip HTML tags and its contents
Try removing the spans directly from the DOM tree.
$dom = new DOMDocument();$dom->loadHTML($string);$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;$elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('span');while($span = $elements->item(0)) { $span->parentNode->removeChild($span);}echo $dom->saveHTML();
@ile - I've had that problem - it's because the index of the foreach iterator happily keeps incrementing, while calling removeChild() on the DOM also seems to remove the nodes from the DomNodeList ($spans). So for every span you remove, the nodelist shrinks one element and then gets its foreach counter incremented by one. Net result: it skips one span.
I'm sure there is a more elegant way, but this is how I did it - I moved the references from the DomNodeList to a second array, where they would not be removed by the removeChild() operation.
foreach($spans as $span) { $nodes[] = $span; } foreach($nodes as $span) { $span->parentNode->removeChild($span); }