Re: strip_tags

On Jul 20, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Frank Arensmeier <farensmeier@gmail.com> wrote: > 20 jul 2013 kl. 18:25 skrev Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com>: > >> Hi gang: >> >> I've been using >> >> $str = strip_tags($str, $allowable) >> >> as it is described via the manuals: >> >> http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php >> >> The problem I've found is the tags "<br>" and "<br />" >> are not stripped. >> >> How do you strip all tags, but leave some tags (such as <b>, <i>, and <u> >> -- I know these are depreciated, but my client wants them anyway). >> > From the manual: > allowable_tags > You can use the optional second parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped. > > Note: > HTML comments and PHP tags are also stripped. This is hardcoded and can not be changed with > allowable_tags. > > Note: > This parameter should not contain whitespace. strip_tags() sees a tag as a case-insensitive > string between < and the first whitespace or >. It means that > strip_tags("<br/>", "<br>") returns an empty string. > > It's all there… ;-) > > Cheers, > /frank > Yeah, but that wasn't the problem -- it was my mistake in coding. In any event, I figured it out. tedd _____________________ tedd@sperling.com http://sperling.com