Re: htmlspecialchars but allow text formatting?
| From: | Ignatius Teo | Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:49:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: htmlspecialchars but allow text formatting? | ||
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Mike,
Try using preg_replace...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Flynn" <mike@mikeflynn.net>
To: <php-windows@lists.php.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:37 PM
Subject: [PHP-WIN] htmlspecialchars but allow text formatting?
> Hey all,
>
> Here's something I've wanted to do in the past, but being unable to figure
> it out just worked around it.
>
> Does anyone know of a good, secure solution to strip html characters like
> htmlspecialchars() does, for security sake and proper page viewing, but
> allow text formatting tags, like <b>, <i>, <u>, <big>, <small>,
> <font>,
etc?
>
> I'd like to allow people to input large text articles via web forms
> (textareas), but still allow some level of attractiveness to the output --
> by allowing them to format the text with HTML tags.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
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