title: remove html tags
body: <p>Currently, I use strip_tags, to remove all html tags from the strings I process. However, I notice lately, that it joins words, which contained in the tags removed
  ie</p>
  
  <pre><code>$str = "&lt;li&gt;Hello&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;world&lt;/li&gt;";
  $result = strip_tags($str);
  echo $result;
  (prints HelloWorld)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can you get around this?</p>