Echo / print variable without html code

Mantis · March 31st, 2005, 08:46 AM

The subject says it all really- I have variables with html tags inside and I want to only get the text - is there an easy way to do this ?

example:
$Test= Testing 1 2 3
I need something which will do something like:
$Test2= striphtml($Test)

Thank you.

anshul · April 1st, 2005, 04:15 AM

Something like that
echo htmlentities("<html><strong>Bold HTML</strong></html>");

Or u may also c the functions around it ( Ofcourse, in PHP Manual, ur she:frnd:D )

Mantis · April 1st, 2005, 06:09 AM

Thanks for the response- I don't think I asked the question properly :(

Say the variable =
font size="3" face="Arial">Testing 1 2 3

What I need is a system to echo only:
Testing 1 2 3

So I need to remove the HTML code:
from the variable or find a way to
disable it when echo(ing) the variable.

Any clue?

richard.york · April 1st, 2005, 12:30 PM

Use strip_tags().
http://www.php.net/strip_tags

Regards,
Rich

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Mantis · April 1st, 2005, 01:28 PM

I Guess I won't need this then:
$Ftext1=$Article_Title;
$FText="";
$FT="YES";
$FText3="";

for ($i=0; $i<=100; $i++)
{

$Var1=substr($Ftext1, $i, 1);

if ( $var1 == "<" ) { $FT="NO"; }
if ( $FT=="YES" ) { $FText=$FText3.$var1; }
if ( $var1 == ">" ) { $FT="YES"; }
$FText3=$FText;
}
Cool because for some weird reason my code isn't working - I can finally go home :)
Thanks.