Use PHP's strip_tags() function.

For example:

$businessDesc = strip_tags($row_get_Business['business_description']);
$businessDesc = substr($businessDesc, 0, 110);




print($businessDesc);

use strip_tags

$text = '<p>Test paragraph.</p><!-- Comment --> <a href="#fragment">Other text</a>';
echo strip_tags($text);   //output Test paragraph. Other text


<?php echo substr(strip_tags($row_get_Business['business_description']),0,110) . "..."; ?>

use this regex: /<[^<]+?>/g

$val = preg_replace('/<[^<]+?>/g', ' ', $row_get_Business['business_description']);


$businessDesc = substr(val,0,110);

from your example should stay: Ref no: 30001

Remove all HTML tags from PHP string with content!

Let say you have string contains anchor tag and you want to remove this tag with content then this method will helpful.

$srting = '<a title="" href="/index.html"><b>Some Text</b></a>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.';


echo strip_tags_content($srting);


function strip_tags_content($text) {


return preg_replace('@<(\w+)\b.*?>.*?</\1>@si', '', $text);
    

}

Output:

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

In laravel you can use following syntax

 @php
$description='<p>Rolling coverage</p><ul><li><a href="http://xys.com">Brexit deal: May admits she would have </a><br></li></ul></p>'
@endphp
\{\{  strip_tags($description)}}

For my this is best solution.

function strip_tags_content($string) {
// ----- remove HTML TAGs -----
$string = preg_replace ('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string);
// ----- remove control characters -----
$string = str_replace("\r", '', $string);
$string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string);
$string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string);
// ----- remove multiple spaces -----
$string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string));
return $string;


}

<?php $data = "<div><p>Welcome to my PHP class, we are glad you are here</p></div>"; echo strip_tags($data); ?>

Or if you have a content coming from the database;

<?php $data = strip_tags($get_row['description']); ?> <?=substr($data, 0, 100) ?><?php if(strlen($data) > 100) { ?>...<?php } ?>

$string = <p>Awesome</p><b> Website</b><i> by Narayan</i>. Thanks for visiting enter code here;
$tags = array("p", "i");


echo preg_replace('#<(' . implode( '|', $tags) . ')(?:[^>]+)?>.*?</\1>#s', '', $string);

Try this

Strip the string from HTML tags:

<?php
echo strip_tags("Hello <b>world!</b>");
?>

Strip the string from HTML tags, but allow tags to be used:

<?php
echo strip_tags("Hello <b><i>world!</i></b>","<i>");
?>