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Asked: 2026-06-13T05:49:26+00:00

I am using strip_tags() function to extract the contents of a link (the text

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I am using strip_tags() function to extract the contents of a link (the text part not the link part). The string is obtained from twitter. Unfortunately it returns the same thing.

The code is as follows 

$a = $cur['source'];
echo strip_tags($a);

Input 

<a href="http://twitter.com/download/android">Twitter for Android</a>

Output

<a href="http://twitter.com/download/android">Twitter for Android</a>

When I copy pasted the input to a string and tried strip_tags its working perfectly. What could be the reason/?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You needed to use html_entity_decode because your HTML looked to be HTML, but wasn’t (in fact, all html codes were themselves encoded to other html codes).

    If you try to echo htmlentities($cur['source']), you’ll see

    &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/download/android&quot;&gt;Twitter for Android&lt;/a&gt;

    This mean this string can be displayed on a browser without being interpreted as html (as a link in your case). That’s very useful if for example, I want to display <html> on Stackoverflow without seeing my <html> tag interpreted.

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