Plaintext HTML from PHP/MYSQL

I am developing a news forum when the user clicks on Publish an email should get sent to me with Javascript along with HTML code and the information the user has provided. I run into the problem of converting the HTML into plaintext. It picks up the HTML tags. The email should look like the markuphtml without the markups in plain TXT so I can just copy and paste. Any suggestions

Can you show us examples of the text and how this text is being created?

Problem Solved

Try using the function strip_tags().

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php