note 36898 deleted from function.strip-tags by aharvey

Note Submitter: leathargy at hotmail dot com ---- it seems we're all overlooking a few things: 1) if we replace "</ta</tableble>" by removing </table, we're not better off. try using a char-by-char comparison, and replaceing stuff with *s, because then this ex would become "</ta******ble>", which is not problemmatic; also, with a char by char approach, you can skip whitespace, and kill stuff like "< table>"... just make sure <&bkspTable> doesn't work... 2) no browser treats { as <.[as far as i know] 3) because of statement 2, we can do: <?php $remove=array("<?","<","?>",">"); $change=array("{[pre]}","{[","{/pre}","]}"); $repairSeek = array("{[pre]}", "</pre>","{[b]}","{[/b]}","{[br]}"); // and so forth... $repairChange("<pre>","</pre>","<b>","<b>","<br>"); // and so forth... $maltags=array("{[","]}"); $nontags=array("{","}"); $unclean=...;//get variable from somewhere... $unclean=str_replace($remove,$change,$unclean); $unclean=str_replace($repairSeek, $repairChange, $unclean); $clean=str_replace($maltags, $nontags, $unclean); ////end example.... ?> 4) we can further improve the above by using explode(for our ease): <?php function purifyText($unclean, $fixme) { $remove=array(); $remove=explode("\n",$fixit['remove']); //... and so forth for each of the above arrays... // or you could just pass the arrays..., or a giant string //put above here... return $clean }//done ?>