HTML tag stripping

[Anon]

Hi guys,

I need to strip HTML tags from a form submitted by users, before doing a word count on what results. I was trying strip_tags(), but it seems to strip more than HTML! It was also stripping half of the regular text. The user "copies & pastes" from MS Word into the HTML form. I wonder is it a problem with smart-tags placed by Word?

Thanks for your help,

Conor Shields

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Cool stuf those smart tags huh? :-)

Look at the copied text, see if there are any <> tags that are not 'real' html tags.

You maye have to use str_replace or regexps to replace all the non-html tags with the html-special-char versions so they don't look like tags anoymore, before you use striptags()

[Anon]

Thanks. I found that:

ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $string);

worked - it genuinely stripped nothing but <>, whereas strip_tags() was stripping regular text as well. I wonder why... smart tags anyone?

Conor.