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

Instead of strip_tags(), just use htmlspecialchars() instead.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php