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Posted by williamrossi
williamrossi
6,232 Points

Removing html tags from a feed

Hi guys, I have limited some text coming through a a feed to 1200 characters but there is also span tags and strong tags I need to strip out.

<?=Utils::substrwords($excerpt[0],1200,"...")?>

Is there a way I can do this with Simple Php?

Thanks in advance!

2 Answers

Jeremy Menicucci
Jeremy Menicucci
19,227 Points
Jeremy Menicucci
Jeremy Menicucci
19,227 Points

I believe you want the php function strip_tags. If the tags are contained in the $excerpt variable there, just do something like:

strip_tags($excerpt);

If that doesn't accomplish it, I would probably need to see more code. If it's just the span tags and strong tags, but there's other tags that you want left alone then you can add the exception:

strip_tags($excerpt, '<a><p>');

And so forth. Mess around with that and let me know.

Check out the php manual on strip_tags as well.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

williamrossi
williamrossi
6,232 Points
williamrossi
williamrossi
6,232 Points

That worked a treat thank you!