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

When using Symfony, be sure to use the getRaw() function otherwise the text cannot be stripped from it's HTML code, for example:

$myText = $sf_data->getRaw('myVarContainingText');

Then use strip_tags() as such:

$myText = strip_tags( $sf_data->getRaw('myVarContainingText') );