Disable HTML

[SP8600]

I was wondering if some one could show me how i can disable HTML in posts. It will be used in a news posting script i am working on, using MySQL as the database.

[Rayn]

you could use htmlspecialchars($variable)

[Sxooter]

Also, look at striptags for removing unwanted tags.

[SP8600]

How do i format that though. Is it:

$message = htmlspecialchars($_GET["test"]);
echo $message;

[uniflare]

You format the string like this:

$string = strip_tags($string);

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if you want to allow users to use only certain tags like BOLD (<b>) and UNDERLINE (<u>) you would format it like this:

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

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if $string = '<b><u><i><a href="blah.html">blah link</a></i></u></b>';

it would output: blah link