Strip_tag Php

[Marcel]

Hey,
So I've been working on a new project not going to get into it or anything.
This is the problem, I want to remove HTML code from some database entry.

                <?php echo (strip_tags($p_item['news'])); ?>

For some reason that isn't working, what happens is the text is still displayed with HTML tags.
I don't know if the code is incorrect or if I'm missing anything, would be great if someone can help.

 

[JayC]

Try This:

<?php echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($p_item['news'])); ?>

 

[Marcel]

Try This:

<?php echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($p_item['news'])); ?>

I don't know why, but I always expect you to answer first.
Worked, Thanks lad appreciate!

 

[JayC]

I don't know why, but I always expect you to answer first.
Worked, Thanks lad appreciate!

Yeah so when it grabs the information from the database this will just encode the characters back into HTML format, and than strip the tags. Happy Coding

 

[Weasel]

That's really not how you want to do it. Just echo htmlentities($p_item['news']);

This way you atleast know when someone tried to echo HTML.

 

[Marcel]

That's really not how you want to do it. Just echo htmlentities($p_item['news']);

This way you atleast know when someone tried to echo HTML.

I actually tried that before and it didn't seem to work, it didn't bring up any text at all.

 

[Weasel]

I actually tried that before and it didn't seem to work, it didn't bring up any text at all.

If anything, htmlentities should show everything. Maybe you made a typo?

 

[MayoMayn]

I actually tried that before and it didn't seem to work, it didn't bring up any text at all.

Normally you would filter the HTML before inserting it into the database, and not when outputting it.

 

[Marcel]

Normally you would filter the HTML before inserting it into the database, and not when outputting it.

Ya normally you would, but this isn't the scenario.

If anything, htmlentities should show everything. Maybe you made a typo?

Nah, checked it again just not working at all. Only @JayCustom's method worked.