What is the MySQL query equivalent of PHP strip_tags?

Question

I have a large database which contains records that have tags in them and I would like to remove them. Of course there is the method where I create a

Answer 1

REPLACE() works pretty well.

The subtle approach:

 REPLACE(REPLACE(node.body,'
',''),'
','') as `post_content`

...and the not so subtle: (Converting strings into slugs)

 LOWER(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(node.title), ':', ''), 'é', 'e'), ')', ''), '(', ''), ',', ''), '\\', ''), '\/', ''), '\"', ''), '?', ''), '\'', ''), '&', ''), '!', ''), '.', ''), '–', ''), ' ', '-'), '--', '-'), '--', '-'), '’', '')) as `post_name`