Hmm... you could always do something like:
$t = ereg_replace(" < ", " < ", $t);
$t = ereg_replace(" > ", " > ", $t);
$nt = strip_tags($t);
$nt = ereg_replace(" < ", " < ", $nt);
$nt = ereg_replace(" > ", " > ", $nt);
maybe?
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Mikhail Avrekh wrote:
> Same thing happens:
>
> <?
> $t = "Everyone knows that 2 < 3,
> but some people still think that 2 > 3";
>
> $nt = strip_tags($t,'< >'); // i've also tried '<>', '<',
> // and all permutations thereof
> print $nt;
> ?>
>
> %> Everyone knows that 2 3
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>
> > I haven't looked at the code, but doesn't strip_tags strip everything b/n
> > < and >? In which case it's doing what it should below...
> >
> > The only solution I see would be to change the code to look for every
> > possible HTML tag that exists and only do those, but with all the
> > nonstandard tags I don't think that would work...
> >
> > what happens if you put "< >" in the second argument?
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Mikhail Avrekh wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > There seem to be a couple of bugs in the strip_tags() function, one minor
> > > (or at least I know how to circumvent it) and one more serious.
> > >
> > > The minor problem is that it treats a "not-equals" sign, "<>", as an empty
> > > tag and strips it, unless it's explicitely set as an allowed tag
> > > (as in strip_tags($text,'<>') ). This is a bit awkward IMHO, but it works.
> > >
> > > The other problem is that it fails on the "less than" sign in the text.
> > > The function seems to consider it as an incomplete tag and removes it, as
> > > well as *all text after it to the next ">" sign*. So the following
> > > happens:
> > >
> > > <?
> > > $t = "Everyone knows that 2 < 3,
> > > but some people still think that 2 > 3";
> > >
> > > $nt = strip_tags($t);
> > > print $nt;
> > > ?>
> > >
> > > This results in:
> > >
> > > %> Everyone knows that 2 3
> > >
> > >
> > > I've looked in the archives, the notes to the function docs (one of which
> > > appears to relate to the latter problem), as well as the source code for
> > > the function itself, but it's not obvious how the second problem can be
> > > circumvented or fixed. I wonder if someone might have a good, tested regex
> > > that acts similarly to strip_tags (strips all but the allowed tags), or if I
> > > can get some pointers on how to fix the source code.
> > >
> > > Thanks !
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
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