Php:修改链接以显示文本

Below i have an existing link that represents a row in a table

$downloadLink =  '<a href="?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] . '&format=xls&table=PTable&netype=' . $neType . '&auditstarttime=' . $auditStartTime . '">[Download Excel]</a>';

How do i simply remove the hyperlink part of it but still keep the text? Ive tried deleting the a tags but that gives me the query etc rather than the result of it (which the link provides)

Currently it outputs this for example (in clickable form).

2018-07-02 00:06:00

I want it just to show the date without link.

Have realised i was looking at incorrect line. New to php, much apologies. Thanks for looking. I just got rid of the line below (so the reassign to a link will no longer happen)

     $row['auditStartTime'] = "<a href='$php_webroot/TOR/pm/pm_push_audit.php?$webargs&netype=" . $row['netype'] . "&id=" . $row['auditStartTime'] . "'>" . $row['auditStartTime'] . "</a>";