How to strip tags in a safer way than using strip_tags function?

Question

I\'m having some problems using strip_tags PHP function when the string contains \'less than\' and \'greater than\' signs. For example:

If I do:

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Answer 1

If you want to have "greater than" and "lesser than" signs, you need to escape them:

> is >

< is <

See e.g. this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp