Stripping html

[Bob]

The TitleField in my DB reads:

Some title <span class=BoldRed>* </span>

This shows up correctly, with the asterisk in the correct format, when
shown on the web.

I also want to show this field without any of the formatting; i.e.

Some title *

I've tried:
$notags = stripslashes($r ow['title']);

and also

$notags = htmlspecialchar s($row['title']);

but still get the tag info. How can I get rid of it?

[Andy Hassall]

Re: Stripping html

On 8 Dec 2006 16:16:53 -0800, "Bob" <bobr@whidbey.c omwrote:

>The TitleField in my DB reads:
>
>Some title <span class=BoldRed>* </span>
>
>This shows up correctly, with the asterisk in the correct format, when
>shown on the web.
>
>I also want to show this field without any of the formatting; i.e.
>
>Some title *
>
>I've tried:
>$notags = stripslashes($r ow['title']);
>
>and also
>
>$notags = htmlspecialchar s($row['title']);
>
>but still get the tag info. How can I get rid of it?

If only there were some way to search the manual...

http://php.net/results.php?q=strip+html&l=en&p=wholesite

The offical function listed there isn't perfect by any means, but it would
seem to fit your requirement above, at least.

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[Christoph Burschka]

Re: Stripping html

Bob wrote:

The TitleField in my DB reads:
>
Some title <span class=BoldRed>* </span>
>
This shows up correctly, with the asterisk in the correct format, when
shown on the web.
>
I also want to show this field without any of the formatting; i.e.
>
Some title *
>
I've tried:
$notags = stripslashes($r ow['title']);
>
and also
>
$notags = htmlspecialchar s($row['title']);
>
but still get the tag info. How can I get rid of it?
>

The function you're looking for is striptags().

--
CB

[John Dunlop]

Re: Stripping html

Christoph Burschka:

The function you're looking for is striptags().

Although as Andy said, strip_tags() isn't perfect.

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Jock