removing links from descriptions

[jakebur01]

How do I prevent people from displaying html links in their descriptions. I want to replace all html in the description with nothing before it is displayed on the website.

 

thanks,

 

jake

 

 

[.josh]

regex

[jakebur01]

could i do something like:

$sambo = "Visit us at <a ahef="http://www.oursite.com">";


$sambo = preg_replace ("<a ahef=", " ", $sambo);

$sambo = preg_replace (">", " ", $sambo);

[.josh]

I'd go for something that removes everything between the <  >

[thebadbad]

strip_tags() ?

[rarebit]

Here's my start:

$s = "This is my web address <a href='here.com'>here</a>, This is my web address <a href='here.com'>here</a>";

$pattern = array('/\<a([\w\W]*)\>([\w\W]*)\<\/a\>/isU');
$replacement = array('***');

$ss = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $s);

print "orig: ".$s."<br>";
print "alt: ".$ss."<br>";