Posted by Justin Koivisto on 10/08/07 19:10

Big Moxy wrote:
> I want to send html formatted text yet strip out special characters
> (e.g. quotes and semi colons). I've seen preg_replace examples like
> $messageout = preg_replace('/[^0-9a-z\[\]\(\)<>]/i','',$message); to
> preserve some additional characters but don't know how to approach
> preserving html in general.
>
> This is a typical message line: $message.= "<b>Date: </b>" . $today .
> "<br />";
>
> I am setting these headers:
>
> $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
> $headers.= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";
> $headers.= "From: $emailaddress\r\n";
>
> Also, where can I find out which characters need to be escaped?

not sure i am getting what you are asking here, but htmlspecialchars()
perhaps? http://php.net/htmlspecialchars

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