removing code between to points

[laPistola]

ok i have problem i use the TinyMCE wysiwyg editor on my site but its came to my attention that when a user copied from a MS Word document it also pastes in the back ground a hole load of other code that when is viewed on a page comments out everything so all you see is what ever is before the call for the post.

 

now this code i talk of is 19k charactors long and appares to be the settings code that all office doucments would make use off when pasting from one program to the other.

 

To stop this being a problem this time i just removed the code in phpMyAdmin but what if a user pastes from word again and its very possible as its a story website.

 

My thoughts was to see if there was a way to delete say everything starting from

<!--[if

 

through to

<!--[End IF]-->

 

but how would i go about doing this?

[laPistola]

is this possible ??

 

thank you

[9three]

Use htmlspecialchars

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

[laPistola]

all that will do is make the 19k characters show on page, i need a way to remove them upon user posting the document!

[laffin]

it's possible either use strpos or preg_replace.

with strpos, u can use substr, to catch the prefix/suffix of that comment block. (2 strpos,2 substr)

with preg_replace, well ya just replace it with an empty string.

[laPistola]

right so i can make the script detect if this code is there first then execute a script that could find the last position of the code i need to remove using strpos() then simply remove it using substr()

 

great idea thank you!!