[PHP] HTML tags in MySQL

Hi gang: I have a client who over the years thought it was great to enter html tags directly into his database via his CMS for display in his web site. Now, he has a mess with some data being shown one way, when he wants it shown another. Plus, not all the tags are well formed and some are

Re: [PHP] HTML tags in MySQL

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 00:16 -0400, tedd wrote: Hi gang: I have a client who over the years thought it was great to enter html tags directly into his database via his CMS for display in his web site. Now, he has a mess with some data being shown one way, when he wants it shown another.

Re: [PHP] HTML tags in MySQL

You can use something like html_tidy to make the code sane, and strip_tags() to remove tags you don't want him using for whatever reason. As for changing b to i because the style guide changed, well, you're on your own there without some really trippy regexing that is well beyond my