php string avoid bold italic etc
<p>I tried googling this, but no luck. Didn't know how to phrase it, lmfao. But anyway, I have this article: </p>

<p><a href="http://puu.sh/1CDtq" rel="nofollow">http://puu.sh/1CDtq</a></p>

<p>But it shows the bold, italics etc(which messes up the default CSS for the styled articles, when it should actually just show up here: <a href="http://puu.sh/1CDwk" rel="nofollow">http://puu.sh/1CDwk</a> (which is good)). What I'm asking is how would I go about trying to not to decode html entities? and to just show default text for the news_content? </p>

<p>This is the code: </p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php echo substr($row['news_content'], 0, 150). "...... &lt;a href=''&gt;(Read More)&lt;/a&gt;"; ?&gt;
</code></pre>
