mysql inbuilt function to strip off tags
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I have the following sql query in my code

SELECT ANSWER FROM FAQ WHERE (ANSWER LIKE '%".$searchKey."%')

Where ANSWER might contains html & style tags also which makes the above query to retrieve nothing though the plain text matches. I am using symfony 1.1 and the above query resides in faq.php file.
So can anybody suggest how can i overcome this problem?.