strip_tags() … replace tags by space rather than deleting them

Question

Do you know how to replace html tags with a space character using php?

If I display

strip_tags(\'
Foo
bar\');

Answer 1

$string      = '
Foo
bar';
$spaceString = str_replace( '<', ' <',$string );
$doubleSpace = strip_tags( $spaceString );
$singleSpace = str_replace( '  ', ' ', $doubleSpace );