help!

Anon

Right now I have a comments script and whenever there is html/php i use HTMLSpecialChars to convert it to plain text. The problem is i don't want all tags to be coonverted. Is there any way to convert all tags except say <a> much like an allowable tags for strip_tags?

Anon

wow it didn't convert my B tag, it executed it. hmm that's what i need to find out to do.

hmmmm

Anon

Not directly, but there is some deep voodoo with PHP4 that will do the trick.

$trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS);

You now have a translation table -- an array -- that you can muck about with.

Then use strtr() to apply the array to your favorite variable.

I discovered this trick by looking at the user comments appended to the annotated manual at www.php.net.

Anon

Hello, try this:
( tag is allowed)

$str = htmlentities($str);
$str = str_replace(" ", " ", $str);

Say 'beep' if you need it explained.

Anon

Forget what all these other crazy people are saying, the following function will do everything that you need, and do it really simply.

http://www.php.net/manual/function.strip-tags.php

To allow "a" tags:

<?PHP
$user_string = <<<ENDLINE
<a href="something.com">this is a test</a>
ENDLINE;
print( $user_string );
$safe_string = strip_tags( $user_string, '<a>' );
print( $safe_string );
?>

HTH.

--Robert

Anon

Robert: Wes Burrows asked how to convert html into text, except from some tags.

What you have done in your example is to remove all html source except from some tags.

Fredrik