How to remove line break<br> from and mysql output using PHP

Question

I used

 <br>

in textarea to write some articles in backend, the output came exactly what i expected on webpage.I used 3rd party apps to share the article description to mobiles and in social netowrking. While sharing the article description the br> tags are seen in the 3rd party apps.

How to remove the
tags from the article description ?

<?php echo ($rows['description']); ?>

I used the below method which removes the
tag but it also removes the line breaks in the artile. How to remove the
tag and not line break in textarea

<?php
$value=$rows['description'];
$sendarticle= preg_replace('/[\<br>]/', '', $value);
?>

Simple str_replace will do the job, else you can try strip_tags() too — Uday Sawant
– Uday Sawant, Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 9:39

Zulakis · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-05 09:38:56Z

3

Use PHP's

strip_tags($str)

function to replace all NULL-Bytes, PHP-Tags and HTML-tags from $str.

answered Oct 5, 2012 at 9:38

Zulakis

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ADHI Over a year ago

it remove the br tag and also the line break

Zulakis Over a year ago

strip_tags doesn't remove any carriage returns or line feeds.

ADHI Over a year ago

it removes <br>tag and also removes line break.After removing line break article has no paragraphs

Clint Bugs · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-05 09:41:08Z

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<?php echo htmlentities($rows['description']); ?>

try this

answered Oct 5, 2012 at 9:41

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