How to remove html tag from string in php

I want to display the first 110 characters of a database entry. Pretty easy so far:

But the above entry has html code in it that's been entered by the client. So it displays:

Ref no: 30001

Obviously no good.

I just want to strip out all html code, so I need to remove everything between < and > from the db entry THEN display the first 100 chars.

Any ideas anyone?

j0k

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asked Feb 4, 2013 at 9:47

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use strip_tags

$text = '
Test paragraph.
 Other text';
echo strip_tags($text);   //output Test paragraph. Other text

answered Feb 4, 2013 at 9:48

Yogesh SutharYogesh Suthar

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Use PHP's strip_tags() function.

For example:

$businessDesc = strip_tags($row_get_Business['business_description']);
$businessDesc = substr($businessDesc, 0, 110);


print($businessDesc);

answered Feb 4, 2013 at 9:48

EM-CreationsEM-Creations

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Remove all HTML tags from PHP string with content!

Let say you have string contains anchor tag and you want to remove this tag with content then this method will helpful.

$srting = 'Some Text
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.';

echo strip_tags_content($srting);

function strip_tags_content($text) {

    return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?@si', '', $text);
    
 }

Output:

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

answered Sep 4, 2016 at 18:26

Muhammad ShahzadMuhammad Shahzad

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use this regex: /<[^<]+?>/g

$val = preg_replace('/<[^<]+?>/g', ' ', $row_get_Business['business_description']);

$businessDesc = substr(val,0,110);

from your example should stay: Ref no: 30001

answered Feb 4, 2013 at 9:50

Maxim ShoustinMaxim Shoustin

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For my this is best solution.

function strip_tags_content($string) { 
    // ----- remove HTML TAGs ----- 
    $string = preg_replace ('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string); 
    // ----- remove control characters ----- 
    $string = str_replace("\r", '', $string);
    $string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string);
    $string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string);
    // ----- remove multiple spaces ----- 
    $string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string));
    return $string; 

}

answered Aug 7, 2019 at 8:08

David G.David G.

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Strip the string from HTML tags: