[SOLVED] Parsing HTML tags

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From a blog entry, php echoes this line to the browser:

 

<Directory /media/Shared/sites/www/subdomains/expyred/>

 

It doesn't show, because HTML tries to parse it, i believe.

Which means i have to convert < into >, etc.

 

However, when typing the blog, i do insert html characters such as <b> and <u>, etc.

 

What is the simplest way I could I make it so any HTML tags get parsed, but non-html tags don't?

 

Do i have to resort to bbcode?

[Garethp]

That would be an idea, or have an array of tags, such as

 

I don't know if this would work, but give it a try

 

$Input = preg_replace('~(<[^bui]+)>~', '>$1>', $Input);

 

But that would still only work for things that are just <b> or <u> or <bbb> or such. BBCode is best really.

 

But that's just me, there's probably a better answer

[mikesta707]

yeah BBCode is probably the best way, although I guess you could  htmlentities everything, and than go back and un-entity the tags you want. but either way its about the same TBH

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bbcode it'll be

 

I just wish passing '<Directory>' to strip_tags() would work =(

[corbin]

Hrmmm, instead of a fullout BBCode system, you could have a htmlentities BBCode.

 

 

It would be pretty ghetto, but you could do something like:

 

[htmlentities]<Directory /media/Shared/sites/www/subdomains/expyred/>[/htmlentities]

 

Then server side:

 

 

$str = preg_replace('/\[htmlentities\](.*?)\[\/htmlentities\]/ie', "htmlentities('\1')");

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thats not a bad idea corbin.