strip_tags

[Anon]

hello,

what i'm trying to do is get a html file as a string in php but without the tags. So i thought i'd include the file and then use strip_tags:

$file = include('fileiwant.htm');
$stringiwant = strip_tags($file);

but this isn't stripping the tags?
is it because i'm using an include should i use something else?

thanks

[Anon]

Does $file hold a string ?? I guess it just holds 0 (false) or 1 (true) ...

If you want to get the content of a file into a string var, you should use fopen(), fread() ...

PHPManual says:
The include() statement includes and evaluates the specified file.

But it does not put the content of the file into a string var ...

hope that helps
rob

[Anon]

Calling include() doesn't store the content of the file in a variable. It inserts it into the output to the browser. You have to call fopen/fread or file/implode to get it into a variable.