PHP: remove `http://` from link title

Question

I have a string that looks like:

$string = \'http://google.com\';

How can I remove the http:

Answer 1

In this simple case, the preg_replace function will probably work. For more stability, try using DOMDocument:

$string = 'http://google.com';
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadXML($string);

$link = $dom->firstChild;
$link->nodeValue = str_replace('http://', '', $link->nodeValue);
$string = $dom->saveXML($link);