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# PHP Function fgetss()

## Syntax

string fgetss ( resource $handle [, int $length [, string $allowable_tags]] );

## Definition and Usage

Identical to fgets(), except that fgetss() attempts to strip any HTML and PHP tags from the text it reads.

## Paramters

Parameter | Description
--- | ---
handle | The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen() or fsockopen() (and not yet closed by fclose()).
length | Length of the data to be retrieved.
allowable_tags | You can use the optional third parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped.

## Return Value

Returns a string of up to length - 1 bytes read from the file pointed to by handle, with all HTML and PHP code striped. If an error occurs, returns FALSE.

## Example

Following is the usage of this function:

    <?php
    $handle = @fopen("/tmp/inputfile.htm", "r");
    if ($handle) {
        while (!feof($handle)) {
            $buffer = fgetss($handle, 4096);
            echo $buffer;
        }
        fclose($handle);
    }
    ?>

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