[PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Police Trainee
Hello. I just finished creating a simple input form in which the contents of a textarea get written to a file which in turn gets read by a particular page. is there anyway to disable any html or php tags that the user might have typed in? it seems pretty dangerous to allow a user to enter any

Re: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Richard Crawford
Would strip_tags() do? On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 21:47, Police Trainee wrote: Hello. I just finished creating a simple input form in which the contents of a textarea get written to a file which in turn gets read by a particular page. is there anyway to disable any html or php tags that the user

RE: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Jason Murray
Hello. I just finished creating a simple input form in which the contents of a textarea get written to a file which in turn gets read by a particular page. This is a Really Bad Idea(tm). it seems pretty dangerous to allow a user to enter any amount of php programming at their will. ...

RE: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Jason Murray
Would strip_tags() do? Easily gotten-around then by not closing your PHP ? ? tags. J -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Donald
Hello. I just finished creating a simple input form in which the contents of a textarea get written to a file which in turn gets read by a particular page. is there anyway to disable any html or php tags that the user might have typed in? it seems pretty dangerous to allow a user to enter

Re: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags?

2002-02-18 Thread Janet Valade
Yes, there is a function strip_tags(). Also look at the functions, htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars(). Janet - Original Message - From: Police Trainee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PHP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:47 PM Subject: [PHP] nullifying php and html tags