只获取链接中的文本

Question

I have this method:

$message->from_address

Which when displayed on the browser, is displayed as

<a href="some text">asdasd</a>

I only need the text asdasd. How would I separate it such that the <a href="some text"> and </a> parts will be separated.

I want it that way because in order to be stored in a variable to be re-used later. I tried exploding it by having > as my delimiter but it only displays the full text. What did I miss?

Answer 1

<?php

$str = '<a href="some text">asdasd</a>';

echo strip_tags($str);