Any one know an easy ways to strip text off all html, javascript, php, and anything else that is not rendered as plain text in a browser window? I am aware of the strip_tags () function but it still leaves in all sorts of stuff that is not rendered as text in a browser THanks
function strip_html_tags( $text ) { $text = preg_replace( array( // Remove invisible content '@<head[^>]*?>.*?</head>@siu', '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siu', '@<script[^>]*?.*?</script>@siu', '@<object[^>]*?.*?</object>@siu', '@<embed[^>]*?.*?</embed>@siu', '@<applet[^>]*?.*?</applet>@siu', '@<noframes[^>]*?.*?</noframes>@siu', '@<noscript[^>]*?.*?</noscript>@siu', '@<noembed[^>]*?.*?</noembed>@siu', // Add line breaks before and after blocks '@</?((address)|(blockquote)|(center)|(del))@iu', '@</?((div)|(h[1-9])|(ins)|(isindex)|(p)|(pre))@iu', '@</?((dir)|(dl)|(dt)|(dd)|(li)|(menu)|(ol)|(ul))@iu', '@</?((table)|(th)|(td)|(caption))@iu', '@</?((form)|(button)|(fieldset)|(legend)|(input))@iu', '@</?((label)|(select)|(optgroup)|(option)|(textarea))@iu', '@</?((frameset)|(frame)|(iframe))@iu', ), array( ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", "\n\$0", ), $text ); return strip_tags( $text ); } Code (markup): that should take out most html tags. You shouldnt need to take out any php tags as the output file shouldn't have any php in it anymore, it should be static content.