Re: Preg_replace question

> Following on from a previous discussion, I am trying to write a "safe" > strip_tags function. > > I start by applying htmlentities to the entire string, and then convert > "allowed" tags back. > > One of the steps I am looking at doing is to replace something "&lt;a > href="blah" onmouseover="blah"&gt;" with "<a > href="blah">" > > What would be a good preg_replace string for this? > > Preg_replace('/(&lt;A)/i', '<a', $htmlstring); > > Except I need to keep the href="<anything>" as well as the closing >, > but drop everything else. > > I will be googling on this too, but a reply from this group is always > quicker <g> How about $new_string = preg_replace('/&lt;a href="([^"]+)".*&gt;/U','< a href="$1">',$old_string); Adapt to your needs... ---John Holmes...