/*
 * DO NOT USE THE PATTERN STRING DIRECTLY IN 'preg_match()' !!!!
 *
 */
$pattern = '/(?<=href\=")[^]]+?(?=")/';
$replacedHrefHtml = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $html);

$replacedHrefHtml = preg_replace('/(?<=href\=")[^]]+?(?=")/',$replacement, $html);

Replaces all links within href part of anchor in a HTML-String.

Remove / Replace - href / anchor /link - in html /string - preg_replace - php - regex - regular expression

regex, html, links

PHP