Re: html to plain text

I think htmlentities() is what you looking for:

http://hk.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

Disco Octopus wrote: 
Hi,

I would like to know if there is a function in php that takes a string
which is HTML, and returns a string that is all the text in the source
string without the HTML tags.

so, for example....

given a source string of this.....

          <p>Hello <b>world</b>.</p>
          <p>Goodbye <b>world</b>.</p>

I would like to have returned...

          Hello world.
          Goodbye world.

Does anybody know if this exists?

Thanks

.

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