Question

This is logically what I want to achieve:

$variable = include "file.html"; 
strip_tags($variable);

1. Is it possible
2. If not, how can I run the strip_tags function on the contents of a file that I want to include. I just want to get the text contents of the file, not the html data.

Hope I make sense.

Answer 1

What you are willing to do is possible using file_get_contents (http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php) instead of include.

Example:

<?php
$file = 'file.html';
$data_without_html_tags = strip_tags(file_get_contents($file));
?>