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I've setup a comment section on my website that allows users to comment on different articles, however if a user enters html in the comment, e.g. <b>. When I then display the comment on the website the html works, which could lead to some users abusing this and causing problems.
Is there a way to set it to so that when I display the comment using $comment any html it contains is disabled and just shows as <b>text</b> instead of actually making the text bold?
Many thanks,
Paul.
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by: Ray_PaseurPosted on 2009-11-05 at 13:07:31ID: 25754034
You probably want to use htmlentities() to process the fields before you display them. It's pretty standard. You can also strip_tags() but I think the entity process is more in line with what you want. ~Ray