How to wipe html special chars like and others from text with the help of PHP?

Question

How to wipe html special chars like ` ` and others from text with the help of PHP?

Accepted Answer

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```
$newtext = html_entity_decode($your_text);
```

You got to remove ` ` separately:

```
$newtext = str_replace(' ', '', $newtext);
```

If you want to remove `html tags` too, you can use:

```
$newtext = strip_tags($newtext);
```

.......

Relevant Functions Reference:

html_entity_decode

strip_tags

str_replace

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