is there a command to strip html from input

Look for http://www.php.net/strip_tags

Lol why do i always seem to get beaten to the easy Questions lol..

who is the input being used, are you adding it to the database and then displaying it? you can use:

$str = "A 'quote' is <b>bold</b>";

// Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str);
// Outputs: A 'quote' is &lt;b&gt;bold&lt;/b&gt;
echo htmlentities($str, ENT_QUOTES);

then decode it afterwards for display:

html_entity_decode()