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

Preg replace is fine most of the cases, there is that one corner case, as discussed here. This should work for both:

strip_tags(str_replace('<', ' <', $str));

Adding a space before any tag is valid in HTML. It too has some caveats like if your text has "<" for some reason and don't want to add space before it.

Answer 2

$string      = '<h1>Foo</h1>bar';
$spaceString = str_replace( '<', ' <',$string );
$doubleSpace = strip_tags( $spaceString );
$singleSpace = str_replace( '  ', ' ', $doubleSpace );

Answer 3

try this:

$str = '<h1>Foo</h1>bar';
echo trim(preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $str));

Answer 4

First do a str_replace

$string = '<h1>Foo</h1>bar' 
strip_tags(str_replace('</h1>', ' ',$string));