Cleaning Up Input

I thought this was an easy endeavor, using either ereg_replace or preg_replace but I'm having more trouble than I thought. I'm sure someone has already solved this problems, so hopefully this won't be too painful. Essentially a user can input some text and it will be stored in a database. That's the long and the short of it, except I want to guard against those wonderful people who decide that changing their font and color and size and making teh text bold and italic and blinking is fun. In other words, I want to be left with the text but no HTML tags or the like. Anyone have something prebuilt that they use? -Jeff J E F F R E Y M . W I L H E L M Phone: (860) 688-2976 Voice Mail: (860) 285-7779 x2811 Fax: (419) 735-8865 E-Mail: jeff@jjjweb.com Internet: http://www.jjjweb.com Read my Epinions at: http://www.epinions.com/user-jwilhelm