PHP Tutorial - PHP strip_tags() Function

Definition

strip_tags() can strip HTML and PHP tags from a string.

Syntax

PHP strip_tags() Function has the following syntax.

string strip_tags ( string html_text [, string allowed_tags] )

Parameter

Its first Parameter is the string to strip. The second parameter specifies a list of HTML tags you want to keep.

Return

PHP strip_tags() Function returns a string without HTML tags.

Example

Here are two examples of stripping out tags:


<?PHP
$input = "<blink><strong>Hello from java2s.com!</strong></blink>"; 
$a = strip_tags($input); 
print $a;
$b = strip_tags($input, "<strong><em>"); 
print $b;
?>

The code above generates the following result.