Remove all html tags from php string

use strip_tags

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);   //output Test paragraph. Other text

<?php echo substr(strip_tags($row_get_Business['business_description']),0,110) . "..."; ?>

Use PHP's strip_tags() function.

For example:

$businessDesc = strip_tags($row_get_Business['business_description']);
$businessDesc = substr($businessDesc, 0, 110);


print($businessDesc);

Remove all HTML tags from PHP string with content!

Let say you have string contains anchor tag and you want to remove this tag with content then this method will helpful.

$srting = '<a title="" href="/index.html"><b>Some Text</b></a>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.';

echo strip_tags_content($srting);

function strip_tags_content($text) {

    return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);
    
 }

Output:

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

use this regex: /<[^<]+?>/g

$val = preg_replace('/<[^<]+?>/g', ' ', $row_get_Business['business_description']);

$businessDesc = substr(val,0,110);

from your example should stay: Ref no: 30001

For my this is best solution.

function strip_tags_content($string) { 
    // ----- remove HTML TAGs ----- 
    $string = preg_replace ('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string); 
    // ----- remove control characters ----- 
    $string = str_replace("\r", '', $string);
    $string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string);
    $string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string);
    // ----- remove multiple spaces ----- 
    $string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string));
    return $string; 

}