How to remove encoded HTML tags from a string in PHP

Question

A web service that I am accessing send the following response...

<strong>result</strong>

How can I strip the string of these encoded tags?

Swastika

maybe convert to HTML and then strip_tags? – Chromatics

#658143 – Overweary

I tried using htmlspecialchars and html_entity_decode in conjunction. I missed the strip_tags – Swastika

Answer 1

<?php
$str = '&lt;strong&gt;result&lt;/strong&gt;';
echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($str));

Chromatics