I am looking for a regular expressions function that will strip the html when I pass a variable through it. I have one for asp, but I am just making my move over to php and google has not turned one up. Just hoping that someone may have one laying around. TIA

vb regex patterns dont work in php?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

or

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php can be done quite well using PERL regular Expressions, u prolly want to look at example 3 and the comments.

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too slow
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Yeah, this looks perfect, funny how I didn't goto php.net at either. I am working on #3 and still having trouble, but that is the code I needed. Thank you all very much.

np.. lol @ sasha :stickout:

Hrm... what about

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

"strip_tags -- Strip HTML and PHP tags from a string"

That's what I use anyway...

The #3 has solved my problems to a T. Does look a little unoptimized but beggers can't be choosers :). Thanks for the tips.

well it runs better then the PHP Regular Expressions :P

lol, yeah it sure beats the pants off of them. I am still waiting for them to be compiled in :P