[!--quoteo(post=350193:date=Feb 28 2006, 08:25 AM:name=obsidian)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(obsidian @ Feb 28 2006, 08:25 AM) [snapback]350193[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] welcome to the forums! i hope you find a great deal of help here as i have. let's back up a step... in your forums, do you allow HTML to be entered? if so, you may just be able to run strip_tags() with a list of exceptions that you want to allow. that way, if you strip out all <a> tags, you'll get rid of all links. if you're not using HTML, if you can explain what text one has to write to produce a link, we can help you come up with a regex or pattern match to find and remove all links from a given set of text. good luck! [/quote] thanks ill have a look at that put could you tell me how i can set the site to become src="image/hatespammers.gif" alt="(hatespammers)' please