note 65880 deleted from function.strip-tags by danbrown

Note Submitter: xyexz at yahoo dot com ---- 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>'); ?>