Want to remove my href tags here:

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I have a hack that tells you who has visited in the day to my board. I love the hack but I don't want the ability to pm a user, just their username only, so I want to remove the href tags, but I can't seem to do it without getting errors - can someone tell me how to change this code so i get the name only & not a clickable link:

if ($today['visible'])
{
$wrdate = vbdate($vboptions['timeformat'], $today['lastactivity']);
$whotoday .= "<a href='member.php?u=$today[userid]' title='$wrdate' >";
if ($today['visible'] == 2)
{
$whotoday .= $today['opentag'].$today['username'].$today['closetag']."</a>*, ";
}
else
{
$whotoday .= $today['opentag'].$today['username'].$today['closetag']."</a>, ";
}
}

thx alot!!!