Disabling HTML and using BB Code

[La_Parka]

I am in the process of developing a fully-featured news-posting script using PHP and MySQL integration. How do I prevent users from posting HTML tags in their submissions? Where should I place the code to prevent HTML: In the script that posts the news (e.g. inserts the rows into the database), or the page that displays the news? And how do I create bb codes so users can make bold and italic text without standard HTML tags?

[Duey]

well i have my own news script borrow the code out of there if u want
http://newshowler.sourceforge.net

strip_tags()
will take all the html tags out you wanna put it when the user trys to view the news that way the owner can deactivate html if that is an option in your script.

bbcode is kinda complicated but it uses eregi_replace()

[La_Parka]

Originally posted by Duey


strip_tags()
will take all the html tags out you wanna put it when the user trys to view the news that way the owner can deactivate html if that is an option in your script.

If I had multiple newsboards, would it be easier to just strip_tags() at the submissions page instead of each board individually?

To clarify,

public_html

headlines
-article.php
editorials
-article.php
miscellaneous
-article.php
newsadmin
-post.php

...is my directory structure.

Would it be easier to strip_tags for each article.php file or can it be done with the single post.php file?

[Duey]

it can be done anywhere