Remove an uncertain chunk of a string (a URL) - php

Question

I have a JSON array like this:
[
{
"title": " Bones of the Hills (Conqueror #3) ",
"author": "Conn Iggulden",
"format": "Hardcover",
"pages": "518",
"rating": "4.29",
"image": "http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347616868l/3276637.jpg"
}
]
Sometimes, (not always) the title string has a link in it. How can I remove the link and everything in it? I don't even want the text inside the anchor. I want to end up with JUST "Bones of the Hills" as the title. How can I do this in php? I have googled loads, but nothing seemed to work.

Answer 1

You can use php built in function strip_tags() on title, it will remove all html elements from title including link

Answer 2

You can use strip_tag() function to avoid this error
$str='[{"title": " Bones of the Hills (Conqueror #3) ","author": "Conn Iggulden","format": "Hardcover",';
$str.='"pages": "518","rating": "4.29","image": "http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347616868l/3276637.jpg"}]';
echo $str2=strip_tags($str);
$array=json_decode($str2);
print_r($array);

Answer 3

first of all your json array is incorrect , check this
[
{
"title": " "title": " Bones of the Hills (Conqueror #3) ",
"author": "Conn Iggulden",
"format": "Hardcover",
"pages": "518",
"rating": "4.29",
"image": "http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347616868l/3276637.jpg"
}
]
use "title": " Bones of the Hills (Conqueror #3) "
instead of
<a href="/series/44108-conqueror" class="greyText"
then
$arr = json_decode($json,true);
$arr['title'] = preg_replace("/<a.+?href.+?>.+?<\/a>/is","",$arr['title']);
var_dump($arr['title']);
now your title will be
string(20) " Bones of the Hills "