odstraneni HTML

potrebovla bych aby se tohle:

text text <a href="nekam.php">tu</a> text text <span style="color: red">red text</sapn> text 

(to se rovna $short)

zmenilo na tohle:

text text text text  tu  text text  red text  text

(to by sa rovnalo napr. $myshort)

jinak receno, aby se vse medzi "<" a ">" (vratane "<" a ">") zmnenilo na mezeru (" ")

(schema: $myshort = zmena_html_na_mez($short) )

jde to ??
jak ? dik