php - Remove href links and label using html dom parser -

first getting html of web page , removing href links appear on left or right side of page (not in page body). href links being removed labels not being removed.

example:

<a href='http://test.blogspot.com/2012/11/myblog.html'>london</a> 

links being removed not it's label i.e. 'london'. how can remove complete row in html source? using following code it:

$string = strip_tags($html_source_code, '<a>', true);   function strip_tags($text, $tags = '', $invert = false) {       preg_match_all('/<(.+?)[\s]*\/?[\s]*>/si', trim($tags), $tags);        $tags = array_unique($tags[1]);        if(is_array($tags) , count($tags) > 0) {          if($invert == false) {            return preg_replace('@<(?!(?:'. implode('|', $tags) .')\b)(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);          }          else {            return preg_replace('@<('. implode('|', $tags) .')\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);          }        }        elseif($invert == false) {          return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);        }  return $text;  } 

if use code, fatal error: cannot redeclare strip_tags().

changing name function my_strip_tags works fine.

function my_strip_tags($text, $tags = '', $invert = false) {       preg_match_all('/<(.+?)[\s]*\/?[\s]*>/si', trim($tags), $tags);        $tags = array_unique($tags[1]);        if(is_array($tags) , count($tags) > 0) {          if($invert == false) {            return preg_replace('@<(?!(?:'. implode('|', $tags) .')\b)(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);          }          else {            return preg_replace('@<('. implode('|', $tags) .')\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);          }        }        elseif($invert == false) {          return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);        }  return $text;  }  $html_source_code = "beginning of content ... <a href='http://test.blogspot.com/2012/11/myblog.html'>london</a> ... end of content.";  echo "<p>".$html_source_code."</p>";  $string = my_strip_tags($html_source_code, '<a>', true);  echo "<p>".$string."</p>";  

that prints:

beginning of content ... london... end of content.

beginning of content ... ... end of content.