Need Help With HTML tags

Hello Guys, Need help with HTML tags …

Let say i have string that i get from database like this :

[code=html]<p><img height="150" alt="" hspace="5" width="200" align="left" vspace="5" src="http://127.0.0.1/Project/FPBank/admin/fckeditor/image/water%20lilies.jpg" />Copyright © 1997 – 2005 by the PHP Documentation Group. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later. A copy of the <a title="Appendix R. Open Publication License" href="mk:@MSITStore:G:GUDANG%20SOFTWAREWEB%20DESIGN%20&%20SERVERServer%20ScriptingPHPNew%20PHP%20Manualphp_manual_en.chm::/opl.license.html">Open Publication License</a> is distributed with this manual, the latest version is presently available at <a class="ulink" target="_blank" href="http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/">» http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.</p>
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Could anyone tell me how to remove all the HTML tags, so i only have string without anykind of html tags.

Or someone already make a function contain regular expression to recognize html tags and remove all of it, include the string between the tags like <p>, </p>, <img src=”bla-bla-bla”> …

Please Help Me
Thank’s alot for your answer …

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