Php strip out special characters

function clean($string) {
   $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens.

   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars.
}

Remove Special Character in PHP

phpCopy<?php
$mainstr = "<h2>Welcome to <b>PHPWorld</b></h2>";

echo "Text before remove: \n" . $mainstr;

echo "\n\nText after remove: \n" .
    str_ireplace(array('<b>', '</b>', '<h2>', '</h2>'), '',
    htmlspecialchars($mainstr));
?>

Source: delftstack.com

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