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Strip HTML tags and its contents

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$spans = $dom->getElementsByTagName('span');
foreach($spans as $span) {
    $span->parentNode->removeChild($span);
}
echo $dom->saveHTML();
 

Removes <span>-Tags in HTML code and removes all span-Tags but keeps it's content.

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