how to remove html tags in php?

i posted some data using tinymce (in a开发者_C百科 symfony project).while retrieving back how can i remove html tags? strip_tags not working..

The easies way is to use strip_tags but it's not very reliable. There is a very, very, VERY good project design specifically for this: HTML Purifier.

It battle-hardened, tested and very good. strip_tags is the easy, fast and go way, but it can miss out some malformated html that a browser will actually parse and execute.

Please, don't use regular expression to parse html!

Note that strip_tags returns a new string. It does not modify the original string, i.e:

$html = '<p>Test</p>';
strip_tags($html); // Throws away the result, since you don't assign the return 
                   // value of the function to a variable

$stripped = strip_tags($html);
echo $stripped; // echos 'Test'

Try this:

echo strip_tags($this->getContent(ESC_RAW))

You could use strip_tags:

strip_tags('your text or variable');

It should work in symfony. Make sure that you have done everything correctly.

When using Symfony, be sure to use the getRaw() function otherwise the text cannot be stripped from it's HTML code, for example:

$myText = $sf_data->getRaw('myVarContainingText');

Then use strip_tags() as such:

$myText = strip_tags( $sf_data->getRaw('myVarContainingText') );

strip_tags(); you need to put what ever your $ is wrapped with html. ...........