Alternatively render textarea as plain text

[heldercervantes]

Hello chaps.

Anyone know a smart (as in short and sweet) way of rendering a textarea that is configured to use CKedit, as plain text?

The regular, html version of the field's content is used on the page, but then I need a clean alternative version for some cases.

Thanks,
H

[kongondo]

$out = strip_tags($page->body);
echo $out;

strip_tags is one way to do it. I'm not sure about performance on a large body of text though. Maybe regex would be faster, I don't know

[adrian]

strip_tags is the simplest for sure. If you want more control, try the textarea sanitizer:

https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/35df716082b779de0e53a3fcf7996403c49c9f8a/wire/core/Sanitizer.php#L1022

[heldercervantes]

Thanks guys. Strip_tags worked like a charm