php mysql html tags

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I am having some trouble with strings which I get from my database. These strings include various html tags in them as well. For example:

"<p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industrys standard</p>"

This is what I get from the database. How do I get rid of the <p> tags in it? I have already tried strip_tags and other functions to no avail.

These tags do not show up in the tinymce textareas and the tags work there respective functionalities.

Are the tags escaped? They are escaped when they are visible in your normal HTML output, and not parsed as tags. — TJHeuvel
– TJHeuvel, Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 9:10
You say that you want to get rid of the tags. In the next sentence you say that the tags dont show up. Explain please? — Alp
– Alp, Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 9:12
Pretty sure strip_tags works for removing tags :S Please show us the code that doesn't work and tell us what it's supposed to do. — Markus Hedlund
– Markus Hedlund, Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 9:14

Sumant · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-28 09:12:44Z

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Use this function it will help you

function convertSpecialChars($string) {
    $string = str_replace("&", "&amp;", $string);
    $string = str_replace("\n", "&#xA;", $string);
    $string = str_replace("‘", "&apos;", $string);
    $string = str_replace(">", "&gt;", $string);
    $string = str_replace("<", "&lt;", $string);
    $string = str_replace("“", "&quot;", $string);
    return $string;
}

enjoy...

answered Jul 28, 2011 at 9:12

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Hammad Over a year ago

this has helped a lot now i use this $text = str_replace(">", ">", $string); $text = str_replace("<", "<", $text); echo $strip_tags($text); and it has worked. Thankx alot sir

daGrevis · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-28 10:12:50Z

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strip_tags() if you want to remove HTML and PHP tags.

htmlspecialchars() if you want to keep HTML tags, but remove XSS possibility.

answered Jul 28, 2011 at 10:12

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marc · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-28 09:10:46Z

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If I understod you correctly, you want to apply htmlentities.

answered Jul 28, 2011 at 9:10

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Hammad Over a year ago

i tried this as well. it does convert the tags,outputs '<p>' in place of the tags.. which means htmlentities reads the tags but strip slashes does not.

marc Over a year ago

@Hammad: Maybe you could tell us what output you expect using some concrete desired result to your example?

Hammad Over a year ago

@marc.. i wanted the output to be the simple text within the tags/ or simply the whole text without the html tags etc.. sorry if i sounded confused. thankx a lot though

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