Re: ereg() violence

Your misunderstanding is that this isn't going to a browser it is going to an email client like outlook or netscape mail. If a member asks for text email and I send them the HTML code that is exactly what they see... the HTML code. If a member asks for HTML email and I send them the HTML code it will show up like it would on a web page. So I need to take the HTML code that the author writes and strip it down to just ASCII text and replace tags like <br>, <p>, <div> with a new line replace HTML codes with text equivelent like &amp; with & strip all other HTML tags that have no place in a text message like <b>, <font>, etc. and it would be nice if it would find the img tags and replace them with something like <<image.jpg>> so that even the users that can't see the image know that there is suppose to be one there. Is this a little more clear? Thanks, Jess ----- Original Message ----- From: Maxim Maletsky <maxim.maletsky@japaninc.net> To: 'Jesse Binam' <sirbinam@xmission.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:00 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] ereg() violence > > On your examples: > > --- : mode (1) > <font color="FF0000" face="Verdana">HELLO WORLD &amp; OTHER > PEOPLE</font><br> > <br> > <img src="image.jpg"> > --- > > --- : mode (2) > HELLO WORLD & OTHER PEOPLE > > <<image.jpg>> > --- > > mode (2) will be visible within a browser. > So I don't think you should do there anything except addslashes() and > stripslashes(), > > You can then have the mode (1) inside a database and just echo it on a page: > it will be seen as mode (2) > > Then if someone checks box saying it's a text format what you need will be > just make it look like mode (1) (itself) with htmlentities() > > I guess I don't understand what exactly you meant.. > > Cheers,