Re: Is fgetss() useless?

Hello Tjerk, thanks for the explanation. This is close to what I thought. So, if there is a difference, I see no point in proposing to remove it. You can consider this thread as closed ;) Have a nice day, Maciej.

Hi Maciej, On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Maciej Sobaczewski <msobaczewski@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello guys, so... fgetss(). We have such a beautiful function in PHP. As it's described in the manual: "Get line from file pointer and strip HTML tags". I'm wondering if it has any differences/advantages over using just strip_tags(fgets($stream)).

The fgetss() function keeps the strip_tags state between reads to provide consistent results; observe the following example: hello <html> <?php echo "we don't want this;" ?> </html> world This should rightfully output only "hello world" (and some newlines); if you would apply strip_tags() on each individually read line, you would also get stuff you don't want.

I'm going to write an RFC proposing deprecation and then removal of it, but first I want to ensure that this function is as useless (IMHO) as I think. Best regards, Maciej. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php