Question

Using PHP, given a string such as: this is a <strong>string</strong>; I need a function to strip out ALL html tags so that the output is: this is a string. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

PHP has a built-in function that does exactly what you want: strip_tags

$text = '<b>Hello</b> World';
print strip_tags($text); // outputs Hello World

If you expect broken HTML, you are going to need to load it into a DOM parser and then extract the text.