Re: text with html tags apeared in text area.

From:	Miles Thompson	Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:56:26 +0000
Subject:	Re: text with html tags apeared in text area.
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At 07:03 PM 10/28/2005, Mohamed Yusuf wrote:

hi I have php form. one of my textarea gets data with html tags from database, so I would like to remove those html tags like <br />, therefore is there anyway that i can remove those tags in the data and then the data can appear as text in the textarea.

Mohamed, PHP has a really rich set of string processing functions. Have a look at:

        strip_tags(), see http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

You may also want to look at:

        htmlentities()
        stripslashes()
        addslashes()

It all depends, of course, on what you want to do with the content. The <br /> - you retrieving XML? Miles