bad html tags

[Anon]

I am looking for a library that will scrub bad html tags from a user-inputed field. I would like to find a library that would let me allow certain tags like anchors, linked-lists, bolds, etc. Does anyone have any hints as to where I might find such code?

[Anon]

If you want strip all tags, just use strip_tags(), otherwise if that is selective look in the code library here or at sourceforge.net, weberdev.com, px.sklar.com, where there were some functions like that.

Using a regex should be not to difficult to implement that. Ah! I think Phorum has something along those lines somewhere in the code.

[Anon]

Unless you're stuck with using a earlier version of PHP3, strip_tags() will do everything you want! According to the manual, "Allowable_tags [the 2nd parameter] was added in PHP 3.0.13, PHP4B3.".

I use this all the time; it works great, or rather, it did once I figured out how to include multiple tags--the manual explained that you could do it, but gave neither explanation nor example of how to do it. The key is to separate them by commas.

So, for example, if you're going to be very hard-nosed:

$text = strip_tags( $text, '<b>,<i>');

[Anon]

Thanks, I currently have PHP 3.0.12, but I have been needing to upgrade anyway.

Does strip tags work for tags with attributes as well? I would like to allow anchors of the form:

<a href="url"%gt;

Could you show me an example of the syntax to allow this?

[Anon]

It's just what I stated: it strips the entire tag.