public function removeTags($string)
    {
        // Remove HTML Tags:
        
        $string = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string);
        
        // Remove Control Characters:
        
        $string = str_replace("\r", '',  $string);  // replace with empty space
        $string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string); // replace with single space
        $string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string); // replace with single space
        
        // Remove Multiple Spaces:
        
        $string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string));
        
        // Answer String:
        
        return $string;
    }