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fgetss

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(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

Gets line from file pointer and strip HTML tags

Removed-8-0-0

Description

fgetss(resource $handle, [int $length], [string $allowable_tags]): string

Identical to fgets(), except that fgetss() attempts to strip any NUL bytes, HTML and PHP tags from the text it reads. The function retains the parsing state from call to call, and as such is not equivalent to calling strip_tags() on the return value of fgets().

Parameters

handle: All
length: Length of the data to be retrieved.
allowable_tags: You can use the optional third parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped. See strip_tags() for details regarding allowable_tags.

Return Values

Returns a string of up to length - 1 bytes read from the file pointed to by handle, with all HTML and PHP code stripped.

If an error occurs, returns false.

Examples

Reading a PHP file line-by-line

php

<?php
$str = <<<EOD
<html><body>
 <p>Welcome! Today is the <?php echo(date('jS')); ?> of <?= date('F'); ?>.</p>
</body></html>
Text outside of the HTML block.
EOD;
file_put_contents('sample.php', $str);

$handle = @fopen("sample.php", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (!feof($handle)) {
        $buffer = fgetss($handle, 4096);
        echo $buffer;
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

output

 Welcome! Today is the  of .

Text outside of the HTML block.

fgetss

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