Remove first tag and replace the second tag with

Question

I need to Remove first < p> tag and replace the second

tag with < /br>

For example : I have a string '< p>Lorem Ipsum< /p>< p>is simply dummy< /p>'

I need the result as

Lorem Ipsum< br />is simply dummy

Answer 1

Maybe something like this?

$input = '<p>Lorem Ipsum</p><p>is simply dummy</p>';

$output = nl2br(trim(str_replace(array("<p>","</p>"),array("","\n"),$input)));

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