The story is I am trying to convert html tags to string in php. but the output is not showing the actual html tags, the output looks hello world thanks for watching, I want the output as actual html tags, please help me to solve this problem
<?php
$tag="<movie service='craftsman-1.0'><body><stack><sequence><effect type='sliding' duration='5.0'><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Canyon_Chelly_Navajo.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Ha_long_bay.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Monument_Valley.jpg'/></effect><effect type='none'><video filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/footage.mov' audio='false'/></effect></sequence><text type='zone' align='center,center'>Hello World</text><audio filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/george_woods_lucky_one.mp3' skip='5.0'/></stack><text type='zone' align='center,center'> Thanks for watching!</text></body></movie>";
echo $tag;
?>I want output like this
<movie service='craftsman-1.0'><body><stack><sequence><effect type='sliding' duration='5.0'><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Canyon_Chelly_Navajo.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Ha_long_bay.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Monument_Valley.jpg'/></effect><effect type='none'><video filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/footage.mov' audio='false'/></effect></sequence><text type='zone' align='center,center'>Hello World</text><audio filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/george_woods_lucky_one.mp3' skip='5.0'/></stack><text type='zone' align='center,center'> Thanks for watching!</text></body></movie>But the output display looks like this
hello world thanks for watchingSolutip
Use strip_tags() it to return the actual result we expect, string strip_tags( string $str [, string $allowable_tags ] ) This function tries to return a string with all NULL bytes, HTML and PHP tags stripped from the given str. It uses the same tag stripping state machine as the fgetss().
Parameter
str : Input string.
allowable_tags : You can use the second optional parameter to specify tags that should not be removed.
$tag=" <movie service='craftsman-1.0'><body><stack><sequence><effect type='sliding' duration='5.0'><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Canyon_Chelly_Navajo.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Ha_long_bay.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Monument_Valley.jpg'/></effect><effect type='none'><video filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/footage.mov' audio='false'/></effect></sequence><text type='zone' align='center,center'>Hello World</text><audio filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/george_woods_lucky_one.mp3' skip='5.0'/></stack><text type='zone' align='center,center'> Thanks for watching!</text></body></movie>";
echo strip_tags($tag);
echo "\n";
echo strip_tags($tag, '<movie><body><stack><sequence><effect><image><video><text><audio>');The output
<movie service='craftsman-1.0'><body><stack><sequence><effect type='sliding' duration='5.0'><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Canyon_Chelly_Navajo.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Ha_long_bay.jpg'/><image filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/Monument_Valley.jpg'/></effect><effect type='none'><video filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/footage.mov' audio='false'/></effect></sequence><text type='zone' align='center,center'>Hello World</text><audio filename='http://s3.amazonaws.com/stupeflix-assets/apiusecase/george_woods_lucky_one.mp3' skip='5.0'/></stack><text type='zone' align='center,center'> Thanks for watching!</text></body></movie>