Re: how do i remove non html special characters??
| From: | Yasuo Ohgaki | Date: | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 05:07:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how do i remove non html special characters?? | ||
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"Sunny at wde" <sandeep_wde@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:20010821010142.8761.qmail@web3903.mail.yahoo.com...
> hi all!
>
> i'm building a registration system, and i want to strip all funky
> character map symbols from the username as well. i know strip_tags()
> gets rid of html, but how do i get rid of them?? :(
>
> i just want simple a-z, A-Z and 0-9 allowed in the username.
Check with reguler expression, ereg(),etc or strspn().
You probably should not strip invalid chars, but return errror.
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Yasuo Ohgaki