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Re: Thorny string translation issue.

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On 19/03/13 00:26, Christoph Becker wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> I want the user to enter raw text and embedded HTML into a database. No
>> trouble with getting it in, but when getting it out, it needs massaging
>> for display..
>>
>> Now I cant find a function in the library that will skip html styles
>> like <b>...</b> or <a...></a> code, and yet still tranlsatee e.g. '>' to
>> '&gt;' etc etc.
>
> You can strip the tags with strip_tags() (note the $allowable_tags
> parameter) and later escape the HTML special characters with
> htmlspecialchars() (note the $encoding parameter, which may be necessary
> to prevent UTF-7 injection attacks).  Simplified:
how do I put the tags I want back though.


Specifically consider the example

<b> <= </b>

where I want to display a bold 'arrow'

strip tags will just remove the tags I want.

But htmlspecialchars simply turns all tags into (displayed ) raw html.


>
>    >>> $str='alpha <b>beta <  gamma</b> delta';
>    >>> htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($str));
>    'alpha beta &lt;  gamma delta'
>

yes, but that's not the output I want.




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Thorny string translation issue. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-18 23:24 +0000
  Re: Thorny string translation issue. Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-03-19 01:26 +0100
    Re: Thorny string translation issue. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-19 09:33 +0000
      Re: Thorny string translation issue. BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 07:45 -0400
      Re: Thorny string translation issue. Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-03-20 00:56 +0100
  Re: Thorny string translation issue. SwissCheese <swisscheese@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-03-18 20:40 -0400
    Re: Thorny string translation issue. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-03-19 09:38 +0000
  Re: Thorny string translation issue. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-03-19 09:01 -0400
  Re: Thorny string translation issue. "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-03-19 07:58 -0500

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