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how to prevent user entered html tag?

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:36 am
by kevin7
how to prevent user entered html tag?
by checking for "<" and ">"?

how can i do that, can u show me an example?

thank you!

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:19 am
by feyd
[php_man]htmlentities[/php_man]/[php_man]strip_tags[/php_man]

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:14 pm
by lostboy
also look at regex or instr, to check for those values values, other solutions include replacing any < or > tags with something else like [ ] or the ascii equivalents...

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:23 pm
by m3mn0n
For more information about strings and PHP check out: http://www.php.net/strings