| Re: strip_tags function [message #178739 is a reply to message #178738] |
Thu, 26 July 2012 18:24   |
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Tim Fardell wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:18:44 +0100, Tim Fardell
> <tim(dot)fardell(dot)all-your-clothes(at)virgin(dot)net> wrote:
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>> However, am I right in thinking that the strip_tags() function simply assumes
>> that any less-than character (<) occurring within a string is the beginning of a
>> tag?
>>
>> I hope I'm wrong, because that would be completely crap and useless :-)
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> Apologies for following-up my own post, but I just realised the answer to my own
> question.
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> I think I am correct that strip_tags assumes any '<' character to be the
> beginning of a tag - but this doesn't actually matter, since the input string
> should be HTML encoded anyway, so all '<' characters should be escaped as '<'
> - so all actual '<' characters will indeed be tags :-)
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> So I wasn't wrong, but it's not as crap and useless as I thought!
I was about to say 'so does your browser'
There is a function that only strips certain listed tags, but I cant
remember what it is
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