[php] Stripping html characters

[nobody]

Hey everyone,
I'm adding a comment form to my blog, but I don't want people to be able to break my blog by entering html or php or any other code. So I need to know if there is a function that converts special characters such as < or > or / etc. into their form that's like &whatever;
I hope that made sense, I don't know the proper words for some of the things I was talking about so that might have been hard to follow.
I guess if I really have to I can just do a str_replace on < and > but I'd like to know if there's a more effective way.

Thanks

[λ]

Hey everyone,
I'm adding a comment form to my blog, but I don't want people to be able to break my blog by entering html or php or any other code. So I need to know if there is a function that converts special characters such as < or > or / etc. into their form that's like &whatever;
I hope that made sense, I don't know the proper words for some of the things I was talking about so that might have been hard to follow.
I guess if I really have to I can just do a str_replace on < and > but I'd like to know if there's a more effective way.

Thanks

http://php.net/htmlentities

or maybe http://php.net/strip_tags might work as well..

[senocular]

look at the examples here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

[nobody]

thank you very much both of y'all
I'll check it out later tonigh

[Jeff Wheeler]

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/functio...tion-table.php
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/functio...dbcf608d62e218

[nobody]

thanks, I already got what I needed though. Thanks anyway though

[Jeff Wheeler]

your welcome