Remove BBCode tags and their content in PHP

Question

Possible Duplicates:
Recursive BBCode Parsing
Strip BBCode via RegEx

What is the best way to remove all BBCode tags of a string and their content in PHP?

Answer 1

<?php
function stripBBCode($text_to_search) {
 $pattern = '|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si';
 $replace = '';
 return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text_to_search);
}

echo stripBBCode($text_to_search);
?>

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