Need a safe way to get user supplied data into a varaible.

Hi, After lots of looking I've worked out I can't use heredoc for what I want. Does anyone else have any better ideas on how to do this: I have a template file that is used to generate a html page. in this template I currently have: $body = <<<EOF possibly any type of text as it's an email message body EOF; I then do some operations on this text and print out the result. My problem is that heredoc parses variables, so if the email happends to contain a string that looks like or is php variables it all goes wrong. Plus it means someone could intentionaly start echoing variables. I need some way of putting a block of text into a variable without having to read it in from a file. From the template point of view, all that happends is a token is replaced with the body of the text. So reading that in from a file is hard. Thanks -- Simon Coggins (SAGE-AU Member) Email: simon@uow.edu.au Network and System Management Officer Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Information Technology Systems (ITS) Mobile: 0408 115861 University of Wollongong, 2522, Australia Fax: +61-2-4229-1985