Strange that php has such a specific function built in...
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
gzgetss — Get line from gz-file pointer and strip HTML tags
This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.3.0, and REMOVED as of PHP 8.0.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged.
Identical to gzgets(), except that gzgetss() attempts to strip any HTML and PHP tags from the text it reads.
zp
The gz-file pointer. It must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by gzopen().
length
The length of data to get.
allowable_tags
You can use this optional parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped.
The uncompressed and stripped string, or false
on error.
Example #1 gzgetss() example
<?php
$handle = gzopen('somefile.gz', 'r');
while (!gzeof($handle)) {
$buffer = gzgetss($handle, 4096);
echo $buffer;
}
gzclose($handle);
?>