Strip HTML Entities and convert <br> Entity to \n

I am pulling info out of a database that has html entities. I need to convert <br> to \n and remove all other entities to be able to add content to an email body without the html.

12:00pm - Some &amp; Text goes here &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12:00PM - 5:00PM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

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Jeff

8/22/2022 - Mon

Julian Hansen

10/13/2016

Take a look at strip_tags()

You would do the following

$html = strip_tags($html, '<br>');
$html = preg_replace('/\<br\s*\/?\>/',"\n", $html);

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Ray Paseur

10/13/2016

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Jeff

10/14/2016

ASKER

Julian, Thanks for the quick response. I couldn't quite get the solution to work. The entities needed to be converted to HTML first, then strip and replace.

Ray, Your solution worked perfectly. Thanks you.

Jeff

10/14/2016

ASKER

Thanks Ray.

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