Filter HTML for Shout box?

mykg4orce

Im having trouble putting a HTML filter for a shout box. I just need something that can filter all php, html tags. I just want plain text as the output. Is there a class or function written by someone?

ps. i have already tried out strip_tags....

thanks

bretticus

Well, I'm not sure what a "shout box" is but I believe I get the idea.

There is probably not a function, not a class written specifically to strip out just html and php tags. For the the most part it would be a waste. Never fear, most developers use handy-dandy regular expressions for things like this.

For example, one way to pull out those nasty html tags is to use one of php's regular expression functions:

$your_text = eregi_replace ( "<[^>]*>", "", $your_text);

This says upon matching the pattern ("<[^>]*>") in $your_text, replace it with nothing (empty string).

I'd write the additional php tag matching into the pattern above but I think you should learn regex pattern syntax so your life is easier

😃

Have fun

mykg4orce

indeed much thanks. Actually i wanted to invest in the strip_tags function but it can give errors on bogus or incomplete tags...so i ran away from that. 🙂

mykg4orce

ok why is php saying this??

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ‡ereg_replace() in /home/virtual/site81/fst/var/www/html/mayhem/test.php on line 3

this is the code im working with....

$Name_   =_ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Name);
$Email_  =_ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Email);
$Message_=_ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Message);

Ace_Online

I would take out all of your underscores, unless there is some reason you are using them. Expecially the ones before the ereg function. Just use ereg_replace(), not ereg_replace(). That's what it look like to me.

mykg4orce

omg what the heck? I didn't do that..... hmmmm ?????????????????

bretticus

$Name=ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Name);
$Email=ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Email);
$Message=ereg_replace('<([^>]|\n)*>', '', $Message);

you need a ^ in front of your \n unless you want to just match < + zero or more characters that's not a > but IS \n . Maybe my logic is flawed. Getting to late to think about it ;-)

mykg4orce

I think dreamweaver glitched out on me. When I copied those three lines of code into a plane text editor, delete the spaces and add new ones, then pasted the code back. Every thing works great. Hmmmm.....huuhhhh