How to exclude from string all the text inside <ul></ul> tags with PHP

Hi,

I want to exclude from appearing the text inside <ul></ul> tags from a string with PHP.

is this possible?

how i can do it?

thanks in advance.

 

Here you go

<?php
$string = 'This is a test text. <ul><li>item 1</li><li>item 2</li><li>item 3</li><li>item 4</li></ul> There shouldn\'t be any lists anymore.';
$pattern = '/(<ul>.*?<\/ul>)/i';
$replacement = '';
echo preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
?>

PHP:

 

Simply use stip_tags.

 

of course it works: $new_text=strip_tags($text);

 

strip_tags removes all the tags, but not the text between any specific tags. Use preg_replace or create the string as 2 (or 3) separate strings, build the list and you still have the text not within the <ul></ul> as strings.