function html2txt($text) {
    $search = array('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', // Strip out javascript
        '@<[\/\!]*?[^<>]*?>@si', // Strip out HTML tags
        '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU', // Strip style tags properly
        '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@'         // Strip multi-line comments including CDATA
    );
    $replace_array = array(';', '|#|', '{#}', "{}", "'", "\\", '#');
    $text = trim($text);
    $text = preg_replace($search, '', $text);
    $text = str_replace($replace_array, "", $text);
    $text = htmlspecialchars($text, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
    $text = strip_tags($text);
    return $text;
}