[SOLVED] 2 questions about outputs

[EchoFool]

I have 2 questions about outputs of which I do not know how to fix.

 

 

Firstly, say a user inputs a paragraph that they decided to use <Span class=whatever>Words etc</span>

 

How can you stop upon output the class being called so it will just be "Words etc" but not changed the words colour or what ever from a span class that it reads?

 

 

 

 

And secondly say a user inputs a paragraph again with some thing like:

 

This isn't fair!

When i input this i use the :

 

mysql_real_escape_string

 

For safety, but then the ouput for it will become:

This isn/'t fair!

[trq]

1/ strip_tags().

2/ No it won't. Not unless you have magic_quotes_gpc enabled and if that is the case, simply use stripslashes() prior to calling mysql_real_escape_string().

[EchoFool]

So it would be:

 

For my first Q:

echo  nl2br(strip_tags($str));

 

And for my second Q:

stripslashes(mysql_real_escape_string($str));

[trq]

Indeed.

[EchoFool]

Thankyou