Question

I am using ckeditor for all my textarea in a web based game, when i type into the textarea and click the submit button it saves to my database but the database also includes the tags like <p> and <b>.

How could I remove them?

Answer 1

Ck-editor is for saving HTML, so it is saving it in your DB. If you want to save only the text then there is no need to use ck-editor, because it is for formatted text. However if you want to use it, then the correct way is to pass through the function
http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php before saving to database and when retrieve it, pass through the function http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php and then put it in ckeditor then you can edit it or put where you are displaying it in a page.

And if you want to strip tags then use this function php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php but in this case you will lose the text format.