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[Adrian Noland]

In addition to all the other comments made, strip_tags() is helpful in this
situation.

http://us.php.net/strip_tags

As for excluding "www.", you need to do something like this:

$form_data = preg_match("www." "", $form_data);


http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

On 1/23/08, Susan Shemin <susan_shemin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Is this "escaping" that you guys have been talking about what you use to
> filter acceptable data into textbox form?
>
> If so, can you explain exactly what is being used (e.g., htmlentities) and
> how to use it?
>
> Actually I need to filter out nonpermitted characters since someone put a
> Viagra advertisement into the php blog I created!  (Caught it quite quickly
> and deleted the entry from the database.)  I'd like to exclude "www." from
> being entered into a form.
>
> Susan
>
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