Posted by Paul on 10/07/06 16:33

I have a string coming from a tinytext field in MySQL like:

<font
color="#000000">s<strike><b>ss<u>s<i>sss</i></u></b></strike><u>ss</u>sss<strike>sssssss</strike></font><font
color="#000000"><strike>ssss</strike>sssss</font>

I get that field in a mysql query and reference it like:

echo strip_tags($row[4]);
It renders the same line without stripping any tags:
<font
color="#000000">s<strike><b>ss<u>s<i>sss</i></u></b></strike><u>ss</u>sss<strike>sssssss</strike></font><font
color="#000000"><strike>ssss</strike>sssss</font>

I tried casting it as a string just to make sure, no difference.

If I take that string, assign it manually to a variable and strip-tags, it
works:
$v = '<font
color="#000000">s<strike><b>ss<u>s<i>sss</i></u></b></strike><u>ss</u>sss<strike>sssssss</strike></font><font
color="#000000"><strike>ssss</strike>sssss</font>';
echo strip_tags;
Any ideas how I can get it to propoerly strip tags from the database?

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