help with php str_replace

i am disabling HTML tags and use this code

$title=str_replace("<p>", "", $title);

Code (markup):

but for each tag i am defining in new line like

$job_title=str_replace("<p>", "", $job_title);
$job_title=str_replace("</p>", "", $job_title);
$job_title=str_replace("<br>", "", $job_title);
$job_title=str_replace("<a>", "", $job_title);

Code (markup):

is there a way to get resolved it in one line so using it all htmls tags will be disabled

$job_title=str_replace("ONE STRING TO ALL HTML CODES", "", $job_title);

Code (markup):

in this way ???

 

$job_title = strip_tags($job_title);

Code (php):

Alternately, htmlentities() will convert all special characters to entities, allowing display of tags but not allowing an XSS vulnerability.

 

strip tags
preg_replace

both should help you out.
Thanks