note 44282 deleted from function.strip-tags by tomsommer

Note Submitter: tompittlik@disfinite.net ---- A faster alternative to the "bbcode" fad ([B], [I] etc) which involves stripping out HTML and then replacing [B]'s with <b>'s, [/B]'s with </b>'s etc is simply to use strip_tags($message, "<b><i><u>"); etc. This saves a user having to learn a useless language like bbcode. When using this system you can still create custom simplified codes and skip them using strip_tags. For instance, this easy quote code in an HTML style format: <q name=Fred>The sky is blue</q> Can be skipped using strip_tags($message, "<q>"); The <q> code could then be replaced after passing through the strip_tags filter. <? // This code strips out all HTML code // excluding <b>, <i>, <u> and "<q>" // "<q>" tags are then replaced with // real HTML after the strip_tag function $message = strip_tags($message, "<b><i><u><q></q>"); if (substr_count($message, "<q name=") > 0) { // replace each quote one by one $i = 0; while ($i < substr_count($message, "<q name=")) { // find first occurence of quote $i $quote = strstr($message, "<q name="); // find end of quote $i and remove rubbish $quote = str_replace(strstr($quote, ">"), "", $quote) . ">"; // replace start of quote $i with html $format_quote = str_replace("<q name=", "<fieldset><legend>", $quote); // replace end of quote $i with html $format_quote = str_replace(">", " said: </legend>", $format_quote); // replace old quote $i with formatted quote $i in message text $message = str_replace($quote, $format_quote, $message); ++$i; } } $message = str_replace("<q>", "<fieldset>", $message); // if any anon quotes exist replace them $message = str_replace("</q>", "</fieldset>", $message); // finally replace all end quotes with html ?>