PHP | strip_tags() Function

Hello folks! welcome back to a new edition of our tutorial on PHP. In this tutorial guide, we are going to be studying about the PHP strip_tags() Function.

The built-in strip_tags() function strips a string from HTML, and PHP tags.

This function returns a string with all NULL bytes, HTML and PHP tags stripped from a given string. It uses the same tag stripping state machine as the fgetss() function

Note: This function is binary-safe.

syntax

Following below is the syntax to use this function -

string strip_tags ( string $str [, string $allowable_tags ] )

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Parameter Details

Sr.No	Parameters & Description
1	string It specifies string to check
2	allow It specifies allowable tags

Return Value

This function returns the stripped string.

Example

Try out the example below -

<?php
   echo strip_tags("Web Design <b><i>Tutorialz</i></b>","<b>");
?>

Output

When the above code is executed, it will produce the following result -

Web Design Tutorialz

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Alright guys! This is where we are going to be rounding up for this tutorial post. In our next tutorial, we will be studying about the PHP stripcslashes() Function.

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