Delete a surrounding conditional/loop?

I don't suppose there is a fancy solution I'm missing for deleting a conditional/loop surrounding a block of code?

It's happened enough times to be annoying that I'd like to lose the conditional or loop around a block of code and reindent the block accordingly. For example, using PHP as an example here:-

class SomeClass {
    function __construct($nah, $alright) {
        foreach ($someArray as $value) {
            if (true) {
                echo "hello!";
            }
        }
    }
}

If my cursor was on the 'e' of echo, it'd delete the if (true) conditional around it. Similarly, if my cursor was on the 'i' of the if (true) statement, it'd remove the loop and re-indent the code in kind.

So far, I've managed to hack something together with vim-indent-object that defines mappings for indentation text objects which are great (check out the documentation). Combined with the following macro:-

map dsb VaImk$%dkV`kj<`kdd

This kind of does what I'm after, just wondered if there was something out there a little more robust. The command above broken down a bit:-

• VaI - Visual select everything in the current indentation level (thanks to the vim-indent-object plugin above), including the lines above
• mk - Mark the top line of our selection (the conditional) as mark k
• $%d - Jump to the closing brace of the conditional, and delete it
• kV`kj - Move up a line and visual highlight the rest of the block up to the indented code
• < - Shift the block left
• `kdd - Jump back to the starting line (the conditional) and delete it

Messy as hell though and plus it only works for C-like languages and if there is an else block then we are screwed.