PHP removing html tags from string

Question

I have string:

<p justify;"="">Vers­lo cent­rai Lie­tu­vos ne­kil­no­ja­mo­jo turto plėt­ros aso­cia­ci­jos kon­kur­se  ...</p>

and want want remove tag

<p justify;"=""></p>

my code:

$content = strip_tags($text, '<p>');

but i get empty string: string(0) "" , what I do wrong ?

Answer 1

Try to put it like that

$content = strip_tags($text);

Or you can do it with regular expression like that:

$content = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '', $text);

By this $content = strip_tags($text, '<p>'); you are allowing the <p> tag in the string.

For more info see the link http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

Answer 2

Since your HTML is not properly formatted you could choose a preg_replace() approach:

$text = '<p justify;"="">Vers­lo cent­rai Lie­tu­vos ne­kil­no­ja­mo­jo turto plėt­ros aso­cia­ci­jos kon­kur­se ... </p>';
$content = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', '', $text); 
var_dump($content);
// string(108) "Vers­lo cent­rai Lie­tu­vos ne­kil­no­ja­mo­jo turto plėt­ros aso­cia­ci­jos kon­kur­se ... "

Codepad Example

On strip_tags() docs it says: Because strip_tags() does not actually validate the HTML, partial or broken tags can result in the removal of more text/data than expected.

Also second parameter is for $allowable_tags.

Answer 3

Since the HTML is poorly formated you probably need to either write your own regexp to remove tags or clean up the HTML before trying to remove tags.

You could try this to remove everything that "looks like" a tag:

$str = preg_replace("/<.*?>/", " ", $str);