#21013 [Com]: strip_tags doesn't work with regular HTML-Expression <br>

ID: 21013 Comment by: digex@web.de Reported By: digex@web.de Status: Bogus Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Windows XP, FreeBSD PHP Version: 4.3.0RC3 New Comment: Hehe, damn it. I was reading too fast over the Docu and it was actually "which should _NOT_ be stripped". I was searching for a function that does a simple strip and Ididn't read that it already strips HTML-Tags. :P Bogus of course. :D *g* :P Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-14 12:00:05] philip@php.net From the docs: "You can use the optional second parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped." So, that parameter is named allowable_tags, not tags_to_remove ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-14 11:42:39] digex@web.de strip_tags doesn't work as expected. When trying so trip <br>-tags, strip_tags doesn't strip anything. It maybe strips somewhere else, but not on my screen. :-) Take this example code: <? $fin ="blabla<br>blabla"; $res =strip_tags($fin, "<br>"); echo $res; ?> echo outputs blabla<br>blabla in the HTML-Source. The solution is leaving the angle-brackets away like: <? $fin ="blabla<br>blabla"; $res =strip_tags($fin, "br"); echo $res; ?> But this doesn't correspond with the Documentation at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php Escaping with $res =strip_tags($fin, "\<br\>"); does it, but why? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21013&edit=1