Remove unwanted elements from string and only keep text

Question

I got the following element in a string and i want to only keep "Alex"

<p class="f10">
  <label class="fname">First name</label>
  <input class="select" type="text" value="" name="person[firstname]">
  Alex
</p>

I tried with preg_replace but i cant remove the inside element of

How i can do it?

Yes only inside plaintext for
. Also label and input classes are static — Alex Bogias, Oct 28 '13 at 11:30
I think you gotta use http://us1.php.net/manual/en/class.domdocument.php — Prashank, Oct 28 '13 at 11:36
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — , Oct 28 '13 at 11:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 28 '13 at 11:40

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$daya= '<p class="f10">
        <label class="fname">First name</label>
        <input class="select" type="text" value="" name="person[firstname]">
        Alex
        </p>';

echo strip_tags(preg_replace("/<label\\b[^>]*>(.*?)<\\/label>/s", "", $daya));

Output will be Alex

answered Oct 28 '13 at 11:40

Daya

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Ye true daya but after a lot of spaces :( i dont know why... Let me check – Alex Bogias Oct 28 '13 at 11:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 28 '13 at 11:37

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<?php

$x = '<p class="f10">
<label class="fname">First name</label>
<input class="select" type="text" value="" name="person[firstname]">
Alex
</p>';

$x = strip_tags($x);

echo str_replace('First name','',$x);

?>

answered Oct 28 '13 at 11:37

Dev

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 28 '13 at 12:29

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Use This code for get best result

make As A string to html code $x ='First name Alex
';
Use str_replace function

$x = str_replace("First name", "", strip_tags($x));
print Result echo $x;

answered Oct 28 '13 at 12:29

Softbharatrawal

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Remove unwanted elements from string and only keep text

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