How to get Post tags?

How can I get post tags in wordpress. I found this method the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '');
but it shows all tags as links. I just need keywords or tags string. How to...?

Any help...?

 

you can use the function get_the_tags()
look in wp codex at
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_tags

and use it similar to this:

<?php

$my_prefix = "Tags: ";
$my_tag_separator = " "; // you can change it to whatever separator you want
						 // e.g. " &middot; " or " <span class="pad-2-em">&nbsp;</span> "
						 // or whatever
						 
$my_post_tags = get_the_tags();
if ( $my_post_tags) {
	$tags_output = "";
	foreach( $my_post_tags as $tag ) {
		$tags_output .= ( !$tags_output ) ? $my_prefix . $tag : $my_tag_separator . $tag;
	}
}

echo $tags_output;

?>

Code (markup):

 

Thanks bvraghav for your great help. Rep added.