removing href using phpquery problem - php

Question

Hi I need to remove the link of a screen scrap site here is the output source.
<div class="FourDayForecastContainerInner">
<span class="day">Friday</span>
<a href="forecastPublicExtended.asp#Period4" target="_blank">
<img src="./images/wimages/b_rain.gif" class="thumbnail">
</a>
<span class="hi">
<span style="width:24px;">Hi</span>
19 / 66
</span>
<span class="lo">
<span style="width:24px;">Lo</span>
16 / 60
</span>
<span class="description">
Sunny Breaks, showers
</span>
</div>
<div class="FourDayForecastContainerInner">
<span class="day">Saturday</span>
and here is my code Im using phpquery
$doc = phpQuery::newDocumentHTML( $e );
$containers = pq('.FourDayForecastContainerInner', $doc);
foreach( $containers as $container ) {
$div = pq('span', $container);
$img = pq('img', $container);
$div->eq(0)
->removeAttr('style')
->addClass('day')
->html(
pq( 'u', $div->eq(0) )
->html()
);
$img->eq(0)
->removeAttr('style')
->removeAttr('height')
->removeAttr('width')
->removeAttr('alt')
->addClass('thumbnail')
->html( pq( 'img', $img->eq(0)) );
$div->eq(1)
->removeAttr('style')
->addClass('hi');
$div->eq(3)
->removeAttr('style')
->addClass('lo');
$div->eq(5)
->removeAttr('style')
->addClass('description');
}
print $doc;
I have manage to remove all attributes styles height width etc. but i can't seem to remove the a href
thank you so much for your help

Answer 1

I tried it with your sample code and it works. This is the output
<div class='FourDayForecastContainerInner'>
<span class='day'>Friday</span>
<img src='./images/wimages/b_rain.gif' class='thumbnail'>
<span class='hi'>
<span style='width:24px;'>Hi</span>
19 / 66
</span>
<span class='lo'>
<span style='width:24px;'>Lo</span>
16 / 60
</span>
<span class='description'>
Sunny Breaks, showers
</span>
</div>
<div class='FourDayForecastContainerInner'>
<span class='day'>Saturday</span><div class='FourDayForecastContainerInner'>
<span class='day'>Friday</span>
<img src='./images/wimages/b_rain.gif' class='thumbnail'>
<span class='hi'>
<span style='width:24px;'>Hi</span>
19 / 66
</span>
<span class='lo'>
<span style='width:24px;'>Lo</span>
16 / 60
</span>
<span class='description'>
Sunny Breaks, showers
</span>
</div>
<div class='FourDayForecastContainerInner'>
<span class='day'>Saturday</span>
The way you are doing is too long and tiresome. Use regular expressions to replace the link.

Answer 2

$html = 'Your HTMl CODE HERE';
$exp = "~<a.*>~isU";
$html = preg_replace($exp,"", $html);
$exp = "~</a>~isU";
$html = preg_replace($exp,"", $html);
echo $html
this will totally remove the link

Answer 3

Does the following code do what you want ? (when added at the end of 'for' loop)
$imghtml = pq('a', $container)->html();
pq($container)->prepend($imghtml);
pq('a', $container)->remove();
Note : phpquery doesn't seem to support jquery detach()

Answer 4

I ran into the same question and I wanted to share my solution. My goal was to remove all tags from the title portion of some SoundCloud embed code. The HTML looked like this:
<object height="81" width="100%">
... a bunch of embed code ...
</object>
<span>
Mike Ink _ Silver
by
MINIMAL
</span>
At the end of the HTML above, you can see that the title has not only one but two links around it. My goal was to strip those out.
Assuming that HTML is assigned to the PHP variable $text, here's how I did it:
$doc = phpQuery::newDocument($text);
$soundcloud_title = strip_tags((string) $doc->find('span'));
print($soundcloud_title);
// outputs: Mike Ink _ Silver by MINIMAL
I know that this doesn't directly answer the question. In fact, I'm using strip_tags to remove the links instead of using phpquery, but I hoped it might help other coders who are looking for the same answers I was.
Happy coding!