how to remove html tags in php?

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

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