title: return text from database without html code
body: <p>I have a text in my database with html tags to make the direction from right to left. and I am looking for a way to get the text from the database without the html tags.</p>
  
  <p>this is how my text looks in the database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span dir="rtl"&gt; ما هي تقنية GPS؟&lt;/span &gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I want to get it just like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ما هي تقنية GPS؟   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using this code to get the text:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php echo  $text_db; ?&gt;      
  </code></pre>