Strip HTML tags and its contents

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Try removing the spans directly from the DOM tree.

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($string);
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

$elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('span');
while($span = $elements->item(0)) {       
   $span->parentNode->removeChild($span);
}

echo $dom->saveHTML();

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