<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fgetss</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fgets" HREF="function.fgets.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="file" HREF="function.file.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fgets.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.file.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fgetss" >fgetss</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN8538" ></A >fgetss -- Get line from file pointer and strip HTML tags </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN8541" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string fgetss</CODE >(int fp, int length, string [<SPAN CLASS="optional" >allowable_tags</SPAN >] );<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Identical to <A HREF="function.fgets.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fgets()</B ></A >, except that fgetss attempts to strip any HTML and PHP tags from the text it reads. </P ><P > You can use the optional third parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >allowable_tags</I ></TT > was added in PHP 3.0.13, PHP4B3. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.fgets.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fgets()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fopen()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.fsockopen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fsockopen()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.popen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >popen()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.strip-tags.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strip_tags()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fgets.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.file.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fgets</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >file</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >