(PHP 3 >= 3.0.8, PHP 4, PHP 5)
strip_tags -- Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string
Description
string 
strip_tags ( string str [, string allowable_tags] )
     This function tries to return a string with all HTML and PHP tags
     stripped from a given str.  It uses
     the same tag stripping state machine as the
     fgetss() function.
    
     You can use the optional second parameter to specify tags which
     should not be stripped.
     
Note: 
       allowable_tags was added in PHP 3.0.13
       and PHP 4.0b3.
      
       Since PHP 4.3.0, HTML comments are also stripped. This is hardcoded and can
       not be changed with allowable_tags.
      
 
     | Warning | 
         Because strip_tags() does not actually validate the
         HTML, partial, or broken tags can result in the removal of more
         text/data than expected.
         | 
 
     | Warning | 
       This function does not modify any attributes on the tags that you allow
       using allowable_tags, including the
       style and onmouseover attributes
       that a mischievous user may abuse when posting text that will be shown
       to other users.
        | 
 
    
     
Example 1. strip_tags() example 
<?php $text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> Other text'; echo strip_tags($text); echo "\n";
  // Allow <p> echo strip_tags($text, '<p>'); ?>
 |  
 The above example will output: Test paragraph. Other text
<p>Test paragraph.</p> Other text  |  
  | 
    
     strip_tags() has been binary safe since PHP 5.0.0
    
     See also htmlspecialchars().