Remove HTML tags from post title...

[system]

Hello,

I need a nudge in the right direction. I have a line of php that outputs a title from a newsfeed. The news uses html tags in the title and when they’re brought over they break because the plugin I’m using doesn’t support html tags.

Example: Tech battle with 'patent trolls'

That’s fine. I don’t need the html tags in the title. What I would like is to completely strip out the html tags leaving only the post title. Here’s the line:

<?php echo $feed->itemTitle; ?>

I’ve tried this:

<?php echo strip_tags($feed->itemTitle); ?>

But it’s having no affect on the title - i.e., the title still renders as above.

Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

[Redscouse]

<?php echo $feed->itemTitle; ?>

But it's having no affect on the title - i.e., the title still renders as above. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Yep, the h3 tags are not part of the the variable.

I imagine this $feed->itemTitle; simply holds the string ‘homepage’ or something along those lines.
Not

homepage

as you are anticipating.

Make sense?
Red

[grwebugy]

They are encoded strings.

Try something like:

echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($feed->itemTitle));


[Redscouse]

They are encoded strings.

Try something like:

echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($feed->itemTitle));


I did think of this and was midway through typing this very answer then i re-read the question and by the looks of it the h3 tags are not inside the variable:

<?php echo $feed->itemTitle; ?>

I've tried this:

<?php echo strip_tags($feed->itemTitle); ?>

I can see that some tags are encoded but the one supplied is an apostrophe, not a h3 tag which only reinforced my decision that the tags in question are not in the variable.

Example: Tech battle with 'patent trolls'

Maybe the OP could try both and let us know if either was successful.
Red