<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >strip_tags</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="String functions" HREF="ref.strings.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="strcspn" HREF="function.strcspn.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="stripcslashes" HREF="function.stripcslashes.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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.strcspn.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.stripcslashes.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.strip-tags" ></A >strip_tags</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN91109" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )</P >strip_tags -- Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN91112" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >strip_tags</B > ( string str [, string allowable_tags])<BR ></BR ><P > This function tries to return a string with all HTML and PHP tags stripped from a given <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >str</I ></TT >. It errors on the side of caution in case of incomplete or bogus tags. It uses the same tag stripping state machine as the <A HREF="function.fgetss.html" ><B CLASS="function" >fgetss()</B ></A > function. </P ><P > You can use the optional second 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 and PHP 4.0b3. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN91131" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >strip_tags()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" >$string = strip_tags($string, '<a><b><i><u>');</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="warning" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="warning" BORDER="1" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ALIGN="CENTER" ><B >Warning</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ><P > This function does not modify any attributes on the tags that you allow using <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >allowable_tags</I ></TT >, including the <TT CLASS="literal" >style</TT > and <TT CLASS="literal" >onmouseover</TT > attributes that a mischievous user may abuse when posting text that will be shown to other users. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.strcspn.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.stripcslashes.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >strcspn</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.strings.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >stripcslashes</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >