title: PHP replacing break lines but still show new line
body: <p>I have a simple HTML text, each section divided with <code>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</code>.</p>
  <pre><code>*e.g. Lorem ipsum&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  Another lorem ipsum&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
  Third section...*
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am sending this text via JSON to an android app, so it is sending it also with <code>&lt;br&gt;</code> tags, because they are needed to show the sections correctly separated in the app.</p>
  <p>The problem is, the Google text speech is reading also those <br> tags.</p>
  <p>I want to get rid of them, but still keep the line breaks there.</p>
  <p>I manage that text in PHP and I tried:</p>
  <pre><code>$txt = preg_replace('&lt;br&gt;', '\r\n', $mytxt);$final = strip_tags($txt);
  </code></pre>
  <p>But this removes the line breaks completely, so the final text is in one piece and it also replaces ANY <strong>br</strong> word in the text, even if I asked to replace <code>&lt;br&gt;</code>, so that is strange.</p>
  <p>So how can I keep the line breaks but get rid of html tags?</p>