How to remove html special chars

Question

I am creating a RSS feed file for my application in which I want to remove HTML tags, which is done by strip_tags. But strip_tags is not removing HTML special code chars:

  & © etc.

Any function which I can use to remove these special code chars from my string?

Answer 1

Hello,

Either decode them using html_entity_decode or remove them using preg_replace:

$Content = preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i","",$Content); 

Hope it helps!!