note 102221 deleted from function.strip-tags by googleguy

Note Submitter: Abdul Al-hasany ---- As noted in the documentation strip_tags would strip php and comments tags even if they are add to $allowable_tags. Here is a little workaround for this issue: <?php function stripTags($text, $tags) { // replace php and comments tags so they do not get stripped $text = preg_replace("@<\?@", "#?#", $text); $text = preg_replace("@<!--@", "#!--#", $text); // strip tags normally $text = strip_tags($text, $tags); // return php and comments tags to their origial form $text = preg_replace("@#\?#@", "<?", $text); $text = preg_replace("@#!--#@", "<!--", $text); return $text; } ?> The function would replace the tags to hashes so strip_tags would not identify them as normal tags, and then when strip_tags does its job the tags are modified back to their original form.