PHP: need help with preg_replace

Hi,
I want to remove the onclick event from my html tag. For instance, given the following:

<input type=“text” name=“txtEmail” id=“txtEmail” onclick=“parent.showTestStrategyDiv(this.id, this.name);” />

‘onclick’ will be removed and the new string will look like this:

<input type=“text” name=“txtEmail” id=“txtEmail” />

To do this, I call the preg_replace method in php:

$alteredContent3 = preg_replace("#(<input.+?)(on[Cc]lick.+?)(/?>)#i", “\1\3”, $alterContent2);

Given that alterContent2 is the the html page which I want to alter. Somehow, when I tried to print out the values for $alteredContent3, nothing is returned. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.