Question

What is the best method for stripping out html etc from submitted data using codeigniter?

(i don’t mean to sanatise it for the database)

Are there built in methods of doing something like htmlpurifier?

Answer 1

Check out this link:

http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/form_validation.html#validationrules

You should be able to do something like:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('submittedData', 'SubmittedData', 
                                  'trim|xss_clean|strip_tags');