How to remove special characters like &nbs..?

Question

PHP

I am getting an html string from the database. It is necessary to remove all tags and display to the user.
This is how I clean the variable: htmlentities(strip_tags($text), ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");
After $text = json_encode($text);
The & nbsp; tags remain in the string. – etc.
How to properly clean them all? str_replace doesn't seem like an option to me. I want to clear all the tags at once!

Answer 1

First you need to make them html tags, and then clean them.
php.net/manual/ru/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php