How to check if a string contains html tags in php?

By: Arshad

4 Jan 2010

Actually there are many ways this can be achieved. There are some efficient ways and some quick ones. Below is one quick and simple way of checking if a string has html tags or not.

  1. /**
  2.  * This function will return true is the string contains html tags and false otherwise
  3.  */
  4. function hasHtml($str){
  5.   //we compare the length of the string with html tags and without html tags
  6.   if(strlen($str) != strlen(strip_tags($str)))
  7.       return true;  
  8.   return false;
  9. }

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