regex function related to fgetss machinery?

Hi, guys, I was talking to one of the organizations we host for, and they were asking about a function that sounded useful, so I thought I'd bring it up here...I know, you're probably done adding features, but thought it was worth a shot. In the database, some of the BLOB fields have HTML tags so that output to the page is formatted...in a few cases, I acutally hold entire HTML pages in the database. Users of the site can "email to a friend", but if the info has tags in it, it really looks goofy (mainly bcz I use pine, and am strictly opposed to sending HTML mail by default...) I had planned on using strip_tags() to fix this, but the people who own the site _WANT_ to send HTML mail... (*shudder*). So, how hard would it be to implement a regex function that used the same machinery as fgetss to check for HTML tags? Just return true or false? It seems like this would actually be like just stopping short of strip_tags(). I don't know...maybe it's a useless feature. I will most likely just write an ereg() regex for it, but I just thought it may be a useful and easy to implement feature...if I am up in the night, ignore me. :) --Joey Smith