HTML Disabling Problem

intermediate

I disabled HTML in a news posting script so people couldn't post HTML with the htmlspecialchars(); function, but at the same time I used the nl2br(); function so people could seperate lines in their post by just hitting the enter key.

When I disabled the HTML it made it so the nl2br(); function didn't work because that function just added tags, which were disabled.

So, how would I go about disabling the HTML and at the same time making the lines still seperate?

thanx in advance for any help 🙂

thessoro

$string=htmlspecialchars($string);
$string=nl2br($string);
this order, not the opposite.

sleepingdanny

The Easiest Function To Strip HTML Tags Is...

$string = strip_tags($string, '<a><b><i><u>');

pablodelapena

I have a similar problem. I want to disabl HTML but still allow users to post images and text format ie: etc...

do i have to filter out every HTML thing one by one? or is there a magic function to do this for me?

jebster

Originally posted by pablodelapena
I have a similar problem. I want to disabl HTML but still allow users to post images and text format ie: etc...

do i have to filter out every HTML thing one by one? or is there a magic function to do this for me?

umm, look at the post before yours....

pablodelapena

so yes, i do have to filter out all individually.... simple answer

jebster

Originally posted by pablodelapena
so yes, i do have to filter out all individually.... simple answer

No no

$string = strip_tags($string, '<a><b><i><u>');

The "<a>" part of that is the tags not to strip! 😉