proper _ereg_replace() edicate

[Kudose]

Which way would be the prober way to do this:

Have a page that has a textarea called lineup, then within that page you use ereg_replace() then send it to the queries page

ereg_replace('[ font ]', '<font>', $lineup);

or

use the ereg_replace before I execute my queries?

Thanks!

Also, how would I strip all unathorized tags?

[Floodboy]

try this:

http://www.php.net/strip_tags

[bike5]

Try this for stripping-

$name = trim(strip_tags(str_replace("<", "&lt;",$name)));
$name = str_replace(">", "&lt;",$name);