忽略preg_match上的html标签

Question

Im scrapping a site with following html

<a class="name" href="/link" data-hovercard-id="charshere"><span class="highlighted">War</span> World</a> 

<a class="name" href="/link" data-hovercard-id="charshere"> World of <span class="highlighted">fun</span></a> 

<a class="name" href="/link" data-hovercard-id="charshere">Save the<br>world</a> 

<a class="name" href="/link" data-hovercard-id="charshere">world of warcraft</a> 

using this code i get the value of links

preg_match_all('/<a class="name" href=".*?" data-hovercard-id=".*?">(.*)<\/a>/i', $file_string, $titles);

but the outcome is

<span class="highlighted">War</span> World
 World of <span class="highlighted">fun</span>
Save the<br>world
world of warcraft

How do i ignore the html tags inside of it? so that it would look like this

 War World
 World of fun
 Save the world
 world of warcraft

A DomDocument could be better. Thanks. been trying to use domDocument but I not familiar how to use its xquery.

Answer 1

Use strip_tags() . Here comes an example:

$html = <<<EOF
<span class="highlighted">War</span> World
 World of <span class="highlighted">fun</span>
Save the<br>world
world of warcraft
EOF;

echo strip_tags($html);

Output:

War World
 World of fun
Save theworld
world of warcraft

Answer 2

Just remove the tags after you get the text:

<?php
$string = '<span class="highlighted">War</span> World
 World of <span class="highlighted">fun</span>
Save the<br>world
world of warcraft';
$convert = preg_replace('/<.*?>/','', $string);
print $convert;

Prints:

War World
 World of fun
Save theworld
world of warcraft

Answer 3

You can remove the HTML tags after you've matched your string for the links. For example

$str = preg_replace('/<[^<]+>/', '', $html);