HTML killer in PHP

[Daniel Hollands]

Is the a function in PHP to remove all HTML tabs from an input box?

I believe there is, but I can't remember what, or how I would use it.

Thanx.

[Koolguy]

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

[Daniel Hollands]

Thank you very much, everyone here has been very helpful with all my problems.

[Daniel Hollands]

Hi there, I'm sorry to say this, but this command is not working, I think it's pulling away some of the HTML, but not all of it.

Any ideas????

[Koolguy]

hmm, let me check over the code

[Daniel Hollands]

sorted
thank you.

[Woofcat]

Originally posted by Koolguy
$whatever=preg_replace ("/<.*?>/", "", $whatever);

That would be the Perl way. Regular expressions are inefficient and as such PHP provides much faster alternatives for most situations.

The optimal solution is
$whatever=strip_tags($whatever);

[Koolguy]

Cool, never knew that one.

[Daniel Hollands]

so you suggest that I use:


$whatever=strip_tags($whatever);

I'll give it a go, thank you :-)