note 65880 added to function.strip-tags

I have found with this function that sometimes it will only remove the first carrot from a tag and leave the rest of the tag in the string, which obviously isn't what I'm looking for. EX: <?php //Returns "tag>test/tag>" echo strip_tags("<tag>test</tag>"); ?> I'm trying to strip_tags on a string I'm importing from xml so perhaps it has something to do with that but if you've run into this same issue I've written a function to fix it once and for all! <?php function theRealStripTags($string) { //while there are tags left to remove while(strstr($string, '>')) { //find position of first carrot $currentBeg = strpos($string, '<'); //find position of end carrot $currentEnd = strpos($string, '>'); //find out if there is string before first carrot //if so save it in $tmpstring $tmpStringBeg = @substr($string, 0, $currentBeg); //find out if there is string after last carrot //if so save it in $tmpStringEnd $tmpStringEnd = @substr($string, $currentEnd + 1, strlen($string)); //cut the tag from the string $string = $tmpStringBeg.$tmpStringEnd; } return $string; } //Returns "test" echo theRealStripTags('<tag>test</tag>'); ?> ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 66.194.50.2 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/65880 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65880 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/65880 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php