I found the problem: all the tags had been converted to html entities so I had to use html_entity_decode(). That explains why strip_tags didn't work. The blog is on LiveJournal, btw.
Thanks for everyone who offered suggestions. --- In [email protected], "ksaul27" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have '$description = "See my <a href="url_here">web page</a>.";' > > Then, 'echo $description;' prints out the html code literally rather > than processing the html. That's understandable, but how can I have it > process instead? > > The purpose of this is that the description variable is populated with > text from a file that contains code (an RSS feed). ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/CefplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> The php_mysql group is dedicated to learn more about the PHP/MySQL web database possibilities through group learning. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php_mysql/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
