PHP - How to Remove HTML Tags From a String?

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I will explain how to remove HTML tags form a string in php. We will show the example of clear HTML tags form a string in php. I will remove HTML tag using strip_tags() method in php.It can remove HTML tag using 2 ways from predefined method and userdefined method.i will show easy example of remove HTML tags form a string in php.

Here following example of remove HTML tags form a string in php

Example: 1 Predefined Method

In this example ,you can removes HTML tags using strip_tags() method.

<?php
//declaring a string with html tags
$html_string="Welcome <span>to</span> <b>Nicesnippets</b>";
//display the sting without any html tags
echo strip_tags($html_string);
?>

Output

Welcome to Nicesnippets.com

Example: 2 Userdefined Method

In this example ,you can remove HTML tags using userdefined method.

<?php
//declaring a string using Heredoc method
$string = "<span>Welcome <i>to</i> Nicesnippets.com.</span><b>Hello to everyone Guys </b>";
//calling the remove_html_tags function with the necessary html tags you want to remove
$removed_str=remove_html_tags($string, array("span","b",'i'));
//To avoid executing rest tags it is converted to normal text and display the result
echo htmlentities($removed_str);

    
function remove_html_tags($string, $html_tags) 
{
    $tagStr = "";

  
        foreach($html_tags as $key => $value) 
        { 
            $tagStr .= $key == count($html_tags)-1 ? $value : "{$value}|"; 
        }

  
    $pat_str= array("/(<\s*\b({$tagStr})\b[^>]*>)/i", "/(<\/\s*\b({$tagStr})\b\s*>)/i");
    $result = preg_replace($pat_str, "", $string);
    return $result;
}
?>

Output

Welcome to Nicesnippets.com.Hello to everyone Guys

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