[SOLVED] Removing HTML tags

[laPistola]

Im trying to remove HTML tags from a varable

 

i tryed htmentities below

echo substr(htmlentities($row_newsRS['article']),0,700);

but all it did was show up the html on the page

 

ie,

p><span style="font-size:12px;">text here</span></p>

would be shown on the page

i also just now tried

echo substr(htmlentities($row_newsRS['article'],ENT_QUOTES,"utf-8"),0,700);

but same results i shown the HTML on the browser page??

 

[Mark Baker]

strip_tags()

[laPistola]

thank you, i can see that being useful else where to!