PHP Escaping angle brackets for <!--HTML-->?

Having a lot of trouble escaping angle brackets..

$embeds = preg_replace(<!--nextpage-->, '', $embeds,开发者_如何学Go 1);

Did find that strip_tags() is suppose to do the trick, but must have messed up somewhere.

What would be the best way to remove the < !--nextpage-->?

Do you want to strip or to escape angel brackets?

Stripping works with strip_tags() if the HTML is valid. Example: $embeds = strip_tags($embeds);

Escaping can be done using html_special_chars(). Example: $embeds = htmlspecialchars($embeds, ENT_NOQUOTES);

You can try the following as well:

preg_replace('/<!--.+-->/U', '', $embeds)