How to Remove Html Tags in PHP ?

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I use htmlspecialchars function in my string. But, I don't want to clean them;

<b>, <br>, <p> <ul>,<li> bla bla...

Example: Mystring = "<script>.....</script><br><b>test</b><p>aaaa</p>";

I want to; =

.....

test

aaaaa

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