Strip HTML tags and its contents

Question

I\'m using DOM to parse string. I need function that strips span tags and its contents. For example, if I have:

This is some text that contains photo.


        

Answer 1

Try removing the spans directly from the DOM tree.

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

$elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('span');
while($span = $elements->item(0)) {       
   $span->parentNode->removeChild($span);
}

echo $dom->saveHTML();