specialchars() user input but allow mine..

[manix]

Okay, that's a little confusing - say there's a user input commenting on some stuff and I need it to be displayed exactly the way the user input it, but I also need to be able to run some tags I'm adding/modifying later on to the same string

 

Let me give you a simple example:

 

let's say a user's comment contains "some text and <some tags> AND some of my encoding tags like *b*this*/b*"

 

Okay so this string is supposed to output "some text and <some tags> AND some of my encoding tags like this"

 

You get my point?

 

if I decode the *b*'s into <strong></strong> then using htmlspecialchars() will display my tag too instead of running it - what I am aiming to do ...

and using strip_tags() allowing <strong> will allow the user to input it too

 

I hope someone can help me out with this one cuz I've been struggling with it for 2 days >.<

 

Thank you in advance!

[wildteen88]

Only parse the *b* and */b* tags when displaying the comments. Only use htmlspecialchars when you are inserting the comments into table.

[manix]

omg are you kidding me ? it was that easy ?? O.O no comment....................... Thank you !