RE: [PHP] Bad characters in a text field

2003-12-12 Thread Daniel Purdy
For example: I want to allow a-z ,A-Z, 0-9 and some others and strip out everything else. You probably just want to use a regular expression. Check out http://www.php.net/ereg HTH! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Bad characters in a text field

2003-12-12 Thread Manuel Ochoa
I have a form with a "text area" that when submited, get stored in a "text" type field of a MySQL database. Occasionaly some of our users copy data from a DOS program and paste it in the text area which results in unwanted characters getting stored in the text field. What function can I use to s