PHP » Strings » strip_tags()
- Syntax:
- string strip_tags(string s [, string exempt_tags])
- s
- The string.
- exempt_tags
- Tags that should not be removed.
Removes html and PHP tags from a string.
This function returns a string with the html and PHP tags removed from the input string. The optional exempt_tags parameter can be used to specify tags that should not be removed from the string.
Examples
Code:
<?php
$s = "This <b>is</b> a <i>string</i> with <font color=\"blue\">some</font> tags.";
$s = strip_tags($s, "<i>");
print htmlspecialchars($s);
?> Output:
This is a <i>string</i> with some tags. Explanation:
A string with a few different kinds of tags is stripped of all tags except the italics tag. The result is printed with htmlspecialchars() in order avoid interpretation of the tags.
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