Question

Let assume that $reply = “blah blah blah >< blah blah blah”;
(>< is popular emoticon in korea)

but, when i use “strip_tags” to strip every html and php tags in $reply, every characters after “<” is removed.

i think strip_tags mixed up.

is there any solution to solve this problem?

Answer 1

You’re treating the string as HTML if you are calling strip_tags() on it. Therefore, those entities should be encoded as < and > before you use strip_tags() on it, otherwise they are to be treated as the start and end of HTML tags.

You will need to encode those entities. Using strip_tags() should then be safe.