Posted by Dave on 10/04/24 11:09

Alberto, John, Jochem, Richard, Tyler,

Thank you for your very helpful advice. So far I'm thinking of
definitely including some of Tyler's code for doing some filtering,
along with the other commands mentioned, like strip_tags() for securing
the input.

However, I would like to ask further about what Alberto was talking
about in terms of storing the url separately. Someone mentioned that
"Chris" suggested making my own syntax, but I somehow the response from
Chris didn't get to me, so I'm not sure what that implies.

Without a doubt, it would be better to save the URL separately, and
then refuse any other user attempts at hand coded HTML. But the problem
that I can't quite resolve is how to get separately stored URLs into
inline text in such a way that a non-HTML literate user could handle.
Right now I offer the user the option of saving a web link with a
title separately from the block of text. They can create a user profile
which looks like this:
http://www.tokyocomedy.com/people.php?person=7 (Page has Japanese
text)
But that's not quite satisfactory. I'm trying to give people the
option of having profiles that look like this:
http://www.tokyocomedy.com/people.php?person=11 (Page has Japanese
text)

I can set up the form for users to input multiple URLs, but how can I
then allow them to place them in the desired location in their text?

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Dave Gutteridge
dave@tokyocomedy.com

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