strip-tags

I am using strip tags on user inputs to remove all possible tags but the strip_tags php function is also removing '<' even if not used in a tag. for example some user might use emoticon as such: >.< or <3 or this can even be used when algorithms etc. Are there any solution to allow the '<' on strip tags? Problem is in this case $foo = "text >.<text" Try this expression (preg_replace with ims falgs): <\s*\/?[a-z0-9]+(\s*[a-z\-0-9]+)*(\s*[a-z\-0-9]+\="[^"]*")*\s*\/?> @edit: For example: <?php $test = "text text text >.<asd text <div style=\"font-size:12px;\">text >.<in div</div> asd asd <b

I've got the following code: <?php echo strip_tags($firstArticle->introtext); ?> Where $firstArticle is a stdClass object: object(stdClass)[422] public 'link' => string '/maps101/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:greenlands-newest-iceberg&catid=11:geography-in-the-news' (length=125) public 'text' => string 'GREENLAND'S NEWEST ICEBERG' (length=26) public 'introtext' => string '<p>A giant chunk of ice calved off the Petermann Glacier on the northwest side of Greenland this summer. At nearly 100 square miles (260 sq. km) in size, four times the size of Manhattan, th' (length=206)

PHP strip_tags use a whitelist for skip some tags that you don't want were get rid. Anybody knows some implementation but using a blacklist instead of a whitelist? A simple compound regex search would work (if this is still about your previous issue): $html = preg_replace("#</?(font|strike|marquee|blink|del)[^>]*>#i", "", $html); Try this function posted by LWC on php.net - http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php#96483 <?php function strip_only($str, $tags, $stripContent = false) { $content = ''; if(!is_array($tags)) { $tags = (strpos($str, '>') !== false ? explode('>', str

The site user can sign-up on a site, and during sign-up he can provide a name. I want this name to be a valid name, and free of any HTML and other funky characters. Is strip_tags enough for this? I find that there's no single function for idiot-proofing user inputs. Best to mix a few together: $val = trim($val); $val = strip_tags($val); $val = htmlentities($val, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); // convert funky chars to html entities $pat = array("\r\n", "\n\r", "\n", "\r"); // remove returns $val = str_replace($pat, '', $val); $pat = array('/^\s+/', '/\s{2,}/', '/\s+\$/'); // remove multiple whitespaces

I'm having some problems using strip_tags PHP function when the string contains 'less than' and 'greater than' signs. For example: If I do: strip_tags("<span>some text <5ml and then >10ml some text </span>"); I'll get: some text 10ml some text But, obviously I want to get: some text <5ml and then >10ml some text Yes I know that I could use < and >, but I don't have chance to convert those characters into HTML entities since data is already stored as you can see in my example. What I'm looking for is a clever way to parse HTML in order to get rid only actual HTML tags. Since TinyMCE was used