Stripping HTML by PHP

Hello, kindly tell me why this is not working, I'm a begginer in PHP.

<?php

$a = file_get_contents("http://www.manele.me/");
ereg_replace("<", "&lt;", $a);
ereg_replace(">", "&gt;", $a);
echo $a;

?>

Code (markup):

 

ereg_replace returns the new value, and you have to assign it to a variable. ($a)

 

Oh okay, thanks evil monkey, I'll try!

 

Do you want to strip ALL html tags or just convert the '<' into '&lt;' and '>' to '&gt;' ?
If you want to strip ALL html tags, use strip_tags() functions.
Else have a look at htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions.

 

Thank you.

I want to grab every link from a page, I'd have to learn more about preg_match? or?

 

Yeah, check; www.phpvideotutorials.com/regex/

 

Thanks, lovely reference website.

 

Is that all you want to do? Because if you want, you can just use htmlentities. The following is from the PHP manual ..

<?php
$str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";

// Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str);

// Outputs: A &# 039 ;quote &# 039 ; is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);
?> 

PHP:

BTW ... I had to put the spaces in between the # and the 39 so it wouldn't get translated to '