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[sergo]

I found this script hxxp://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/09/php_tip_how_strip_html_tags_web_page that should strip HTML tags, scripts, and styles from a web page but it doesn't.

What is the problem?

[Jacki]

I suggest you to use the strip_tags() function from the php library. That's the easiest way. Bye!

[sergo]

strip_tags() function is useless

[zeroradius]

no its not. It works perfectly.

[sergo]

I have tried it and it doesn't work, it returns the tags, not the text without tags

[Jacki]

sergo said:

I have tried it and it doesn't work, it returns the tags, not the text without tags

It works! Post the code where you've used strip_tags()..

<?php

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';

echo strip_tags($text);

echo "\n";


// Allow <p> and <a>

echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');

?>

[chili5]

sergo said:

I have tried it and it doesn't work, it returns the tags, not the text without tags

It works just fine. :confused: Post your code. You are probably using it wrong. Either that or you don't understand the function correctly. It is working but you think it isn't.

[sergo]

How do I use this to remove something like this ("something"); or Blaf Blab ?

<?php

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';

echo strip_tags($text);

echo "\n";


// Allow <p> and <a>

echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');

?> 

[Jacki]

sergo said:

How do I use this to remove something like this ("something"); or Blaf Blab ?

<?php
$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);
echo "\n";

// Allow <p> and <a>
echo strip_tags($text, '<p><a>');
?> 

strip_tags is only for strips html tag, if you want to strip one other thing you have to use an other function, for example you can do:

$string = str_replace("something", "", $string);