If you have a text string that contains HTML elements and wouldl ike to strip out all of the HTML tags leaving only the plain text, take a look at the PHP command strip_tags

This PHP command strip_tags can be used from 4D like this:

C_TEXT($input;$output) C_BOOLEAN($isOk) $isOk:=PHP Execute("";"strip_tags";$output;$input)

So if you have a string like this:

$input:="<br>this <b>is <ul><li>bold</li></ul></b><br />"

You can convert it to plain text like this:

C_TEXT($input;$output) C_BOOLEAN($isOk) $input:="<br>this <b>is <ul><li>bold</li></ul></b><br />" $isOk:=PHP Execute("";"strip_tags";$output;$input) ALERT($output)

Which returns:

this is bold