[blinn_shade]

Hey,

I have used htmlentities() to insert HTML in the database. This outputs the HTML as : <p> etc...



Now I need to strip these values so it doesn't show any HTML or any HTML code. I know tat using : html_entity_decode(); restores the HTML to displayable HTML. But i need to get rid of everything to do with HTML. I just need the text in the html to be returned.

Can someone help me please?

Thanks.

[Nico]

www.php.net/strip_tags

This might be what you're looking for.

[blinn_shade]

No it's not. I am looking for a way to remove all the entities of HTML as such: &amp;lt;p&amp;gt; which would be <p>. Strip tags only removes real html strings such as:

HTML Code:

<p>Text here</p>

[Nico]

Use html_entity_decode() first, and then strip_tags() ?

[blinn_shade]

I've tried that before I posted here. it seems to return the text and HTML but with making the HTML display as text.

[Nico]

You must be doing something wrong somewhere, because the method I mentioned above does work.

You have the text in your database like this:

Code:

<p>Text here</p>

Now to convert it into the wanted format you just do:

PHP Code:

$text = strip_tags(html_entity_decode($text)); 

And this outputs: "Texet here".

If that's not your case, post your actual code to spot the error.

[blinn_shade]

As I said I have trid that. It removed the first: &lt;p&gt; but doesn't remove any more then one. Is there another way to this?

[Nico]

This is probably the best way of doing it, and it does work. So why not post your code so we can try to find out why it's not working for you?

[blinn_shade]

My code is over a thousand lines ;(

[Nico]

Well how about the part that has to do with this? From where it fetches the data from the database, to the part where it's being displayed?

There might be another way to achieve the same, but would be more complicated since you want to strip the HTML as well. And there must be just a small error somewhere.

As you describe, it "displays the HTML as text", I guess you're not applying the function to the right variable or something along these lines.

But at the moment I can't do more than guess.