Regex to remove html tags in a block

[eluser]bugboy[/eluser]
Hi all

I'm trying to remove blocks of html from stings of text.
Once they are removed i place a marker where they were and then run some code before adding them back in.

This regex does it for most html tags apart from image tags <img />

Code:

"|<[^>]+>(.*)</[^>]+>|U"

I also want to try and remove whole blocks of html from a string.


so for example say i have a string that looks like this. This contains links, images and youtube.

Code:

Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Optional Title Here">title for this link reference-style link. This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. This is <a href="http://example.com/" title="Title">an example</a> inline link.  Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.

<img src="/media/display/Photo_10.jpg" alt="Photo_10.jpg" />

&lt;object height="350" width="425"&gt;
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvWQNa1czG4" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    &lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvWQNa1czG4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" wmode="transparent" width="425" /&gt;
&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/param></param>&lt;/object&gt;

i would like it to be outputtd like this.

Code:

Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus. This is {*0} title for this link reference-style link. This is a blockquote with two paragraphs. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aliquam hendrerit mi posuere lectus. This is {*1} inline link.  Vestibulum enim wisi, viverra nec, fringilla in, laoreet vitae, risus.

{*2}

{*3}

I can't seem to figure it out i get so far with it and then it breaks.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time