title: How to remove formatting in a field after retrieve it from DB
body: <p>I am retreiving a field from a DB with pre formatted text in there. For example the text contains  <br> etc. I would like to remove all the formats and just display the plain text. Just so I can read a quick preview of what is in the actual field. And the viewer can just click on the link attached to see the whole article where the formatted text is intact.</p>
  
  <p>Display:    <code>&lt;?php echo substr($row_RS_NEWS_B2['Article'], 0, 150); ?&lt;a href="news.php?news_id=&lt;?php echo $row_RS_NEWS_B2['id']; ?&gt;-&lt;?php echo str_replace(' ', '-', $row_RS_NEWS_B2['Title']); ?&gt;"&gt;... Read More&lt;/a&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>Is this possible?
  Any help welcome</p>