note 110280 added to function.strip-tags

a HTML code like this: <?php $html = ' <div> <p style="color:blue;">color is blue</p><p>size is <span style="font-size:200%;">huge</span></p> <p>material is wood</p> </div> '; ?> with <?php $str = strip_tags($html); ?> ... the result is: $str = 'color is bluesize is huge material is wood'; notice: the words 'blue' and 'size' grow together :( and line-breaks are still in new string $str if you need a space between the words (and without line-break) use my function: <?php $str = rip_tags($html); ?> ... the result is: $str = 'color is blue size is huge material is wood'; the function: <?php // -------------------------------------------------------------- function rip_tags($string) { // ----- remove HTML TAGs ----- $string = preg_replace ('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string); // ----- remove control characters ----- $string = str_replace("\r", '', $string); // --- replace with empty space $string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string); // --- replace with space $string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string); // --- replace with space // ----- remove multiple spaces ----- $string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string)); return $string; } // -------------------------------------------------------------- ?> the KEY is the regex pattern: '/<[^>]*>/' instead of strip_tags() ... then remove control characters and multiple spaces :) ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 188.193.218.26 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/110280 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/110280 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/110280 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php