Re: HTML vs. Plain Text Input
| From: | Richard Davey | Date: | Fri, 07 May 2004 08:37:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: HTML vs. Plain Text Input | ||
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Hello Matt,
Friday, May 7, 2004, 9:33:28 AM, you wrote:
MP> Hey, I was wondering if anyone knows of any easy ways to detect for HTML
MP> input. I have a textarea box that I want users to be able to input either
MP> plain text or HTML code. I will later display this input data, so if the
MP> user input plain text then I will replace newline characters (\r\n, \n, \r)
MP> with <br> tags, but if they input HTML code I don't want to format it before
MP> displaying it. Basically is there an easy way to detect HTML code in
MP> inputs? If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
Just one way of doing this, but...
$userinput = 'blah blah <b>bold!</b> blah';
$test_html = strip_tags($userinput);
if ($userinput !== $test_html)
{
echo 'They included html!';
}
else
{
echo 'Plain text';
}
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Best regards,
Richard Davey
http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html