SplFileObject::fgetss

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)

Gets line from file and strip HTML tags

public string SplFileObject::fgetss ([ string $allowable_tags ] )

Identical to SplFileObject::fgets(), except that SplFileObject::fgetss() attempts to strip any HTML and PHP tags from the text it reads.

Parameters:

allowable_tags

Optional parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped.

Returns:

Returns a string containing the next line of the file with HTML and PHP code stripped, or FALSE on error.

Examples:

SplFileObject::fgetss() example

<?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);
 
$file = new SplFileObject("sample.php");
while (!$file->eof()) {
    echo $file->fgetss();
}
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

 Welcome! Today is the  of .

Text outside of the HTML block.