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I lately had to advance a outstandingly simplex email checker for a punter. It was obligatory to selection quite a few text from a info and consequently to embed that primer into an email message, which was consequently pink-slipped off to a post schedule.

The eccentricity I had was that the primer contained HTML tags as resourcefully as other HTML characters (for example, nbsp;), and I lone wanted apparent file in the email.

(Please file that for demonstration reasons in this article, I've omitted the influential punctuation mark from the HTML imaginary creature.)

Few paragraphs:
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I was able to use the PHP strip_tags drive to get out the HTML tags (see down the stairs), but this frozen left-hand me beside several HTML characters in the textual matter.

The use of a standard idiom resolved the difficulty.

Here is the bit of attitude I previously owned to comb up the table of the variable:

// Get rid of HTML tags

$contents = strip_tags($contents);

// Get rid of non-breaking spaces

$pattern = '/nbsp;/';

$replacement = ' ';

$contents = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $contents);

When I extracted the crumb of matter from the database I settled it in a unsettled called $contents. I next ran the PHP strip_tags control on the mutable to get rid of the HTML tags.

Next we have the bit of written language that includes the rhythmic torrent.

$pattern contains the HTML personality we want to survey for. Here, $pattern contains nbsp;, which is the HTML fictional character for a non-breaking outer space. I required to get rid of this and replace it with a standard extraterrestrial because it looked a bit weird in the email e-mail. For example, I requisite to change:

'thisnbsp;week'snbsp;specialnbsp;offernbsp;is...'

to:

'this week's partisan submit is...'

$replacement contains a blank space, which is what I want to replace nbsp; near.

The closing row in the bit of written language is the existent regular aspect.