How to remove html effect from a string using php? [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to display short description without any markup in read-more section. I want to display small portion of content.

Content Looks like:

This is my car. This may be a ~~funny~~ content. This is a demo text. This is a demo text.

This is a demo text. This is a demo text. This is a demo text. This is a demo text. This is a demo text. This is a demo text.

Readmore Looks Like:

This is my car. This may be a funny content.

My question is how to remove the effect of html and display a normal string.

If you want to preserve the actual content, but remove the HTML tags, you can use strip_tags() function php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php - this preserves the original text (just removes the formatting) though. — Qirel
– Qirel, Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 17:39
You just apply strip_tags() to the "read more" portion of it, not the entire string. Although if you want to remove the style of the HTML attributes, put it all into a div which you style in a way that it becomes normal text inside it. — Qirel
– Qirel, Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 17:51

Scare · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-02 18:03:02Z

Following your example, your input string will look like this:

<b>This is my car.</b> <em>This may be a <strike>funny</strike> content.</em>
<p>This is a demo text. This is a demo text.</p>

let's consider this is going to be inside a variable $mystring

echo $mystring;
This is my car. This may be a ~~funny~~ content.

with strip_tags function and only $mystring as parameter you remove all the tags:

echo strip_tags($mystring);
This is my car. This may be a funny content.

you can also exclude some of the tags you wanna keep, for example:

echo strip_tags($mystring,"<strike>");
This is my car. This may be a ~~funny~~ content.

In your situation probably this last option will be useful if you want to keep some tags and replacing them manually (for example br with \n ...)

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