note 23329 added to function.strip-tags

This is more of a question, but yeah.. in a forum type environment, would it not be much simpler to do this: $text = str_replace("<", "&lt;", $text); $text = str_replace(">", "&gt;", $text); this seems much simpler to me, as many people oblivious to the existance of HTML may try to use < and > in their posts... any suggestions? -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23329 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23329 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23329