Ignore HTML Tag?

[nyanu]

Hi,
I am trying to do a simple forum which get people's post and store in database and retrieve and output in php.

I have one question,
is there any tag that will ignore HTML tag within the tag??

I know [pre] tag can preserve the space and returns and ignore some html Tags.
But is there any tag can ignore like br, font tag?

Or is there any way to ignore those tag when storing into database? Do i need to parse the posted msg into a script to remove all those html tags?

I dont wish the poster to post html tag to mess up the output....

Please advise.
Thanks

[morrisoner]

if you want the user to be able to enter tags for them to be displayed you can do this

$string = htmlspecialchars($string);

or if you want to completely remove the tags

$string = strip_tags($string);

[nyanu]

Thanks. I didnt realise there is this function 🙂
I wonder ASP got this function....hehe