[PHP-DB] text with html tags apeared in text area.

2005-10-28 Thread Mohamed Yusuf
hi
I have php form. one of my textarea gets data with html tags from database,
so I would like to remove those html tags like br /, therefore is there
anyway that i can remove those tags in the data and then the data can appear
as text in the textarea.


Re: [PHP-DB] text with html tags apeared in text area.

2005-10-28 Thread Miles Thompson

At 07:03 PM 10/28/2005, Mohamed Yusuf wrote:

hi
I have php form. one of my textarea gets data with html tags from database,
so I would like to remove those html tags like br /, therefore is there
anyway that i can remove those tags in the data and then the data can appear
as text in the textarea.



Mohamed,


PHP has a really rich set of string processing functions. Have a look at:

strip_tags(), see http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

You may also want to look at:

htmlentities()
stripslashes()
addslashes()

It all depends, of course, on what you want to do with the content.

The br / - you retrieving XML?

Miles

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