Remove element via PHP str_replace and regex

Question

I think my the regex is off (not very good at regex yet). What I'm trying to do is remove the first and last <section> tags (though this is set to replace all, if it worked). I set it up like this so it would completely remove any attributes of the tag, along with the closing tag.

The code:

//Remove from string
$content = "<section><p>Test</p></section>";
$section = "<(.*?)section(.*?)>";
$output= str_replace($section, "", $content);
echo $output;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-to-parse-and-process-html-xml/3577662#3577662 — Wesley Schleumer de Góes, May 20 '13 at 20:11
I'm completely confused about the link and why this is getting downvotes.. I just want to remove a section tag to fix a glitch in my program. This seemed like a good way to do it. — Casey Dwayne, May 20 '13 at 20:15

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '13 at 20:18

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You are looking for strip_tags.

Try this:

print strip_tags($content, '<section>');

answered May 20 '13 at 20:18

Sumoanand

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