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

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

$html = '
Test
';
strip_tags($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'