How to remove tags and more from a string?

Question

I need to strip all
and all \'quotes\' (\") and all \'ands\' (&) and replace them with a space only ...

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Answer 1

To remove all permutations of br:

check out the user contributed strip_only() function in

http://www.php.net/strip_tags

The "Use the DOM instead of replacing" caveat is always correct, but if the task is really limited to these three characters, this should be o.k.