I've got a list of websites for each US Congress member that I'm programmatically crawling to scrape addresses. Many of the sites vary in their underlying markup, but this wasn't initially a problem until I started seeing that hundreds of sites were not giving the expected results for the script I had written. After taking some more tim...
I'm adding a new column, summary, to an existing table. It will contain a plaintext snippet of the HTML from the column body. I want to create summaries for all existing emails when I run my migration. However, I can't figure out how to use strip_tags within my migration. Here's what I have so far: class AddSummaryToEmails < ActiveRec...
I'm new to PHP and I'm following a tutorial here: Link It's pretty scary that a user can write php code in an input and basically screw your site, right? Well, now I'm a bit paranoid and I'd rather learn security best practices right off the bat than try to cram them in once I have some habits in me. Since I'm brand new to PHP (litera...
I have various HTML strings to cut to 100 characters (of the stripped content, not the original) without stripping tags and without breaking HTML. Original HTML string (288 characters): $content = "<div>With a <span class='spanClass'>span over here</span> and a <div class='divClass'>nested div over <div class='nestedDivClass'>there</di...
I'm having problems stripping the tags from the textual inputs retrieved from my form so as to do something with them in checkout.php. The input is stored in a multi-dimensional array. Here's my form: echo '<form name="choose" action="checkout.php" method="post" onsubmit="return validate_second_form(this);">'; echo '<input ...
in my PHP web application,I have a dataentry form where users will enter data using a rich text editor (FCKEditor i m using) and will be saving the Markup from the editor to the DB table.In another page i have to display the first 200 chars of the content (with View more link to view the entire thing). So when i m taking first 200 chars,...
I was reading an article about form security becuase I have a form which a user can add messages. I read that it was best to use strip_tags(), htmlspecialchars() and nl2br() Somewhere else said to use html_entity_decode() I have this code in my page which takes the user input <?php $topicmessage = check_input($_POST['message']);...
I'm currently recovering from a nasty XSS attack, and realized I never sanitized inputs on several of the forms on my site. I used Notepad++'s Find In Files feature to search for $_POST in all my PHP files, and got almost 5,000 results. Now, I really don't want to go and manually add strip_tags to every one of those results, but a repl...
$string = 'text <span style="color:#f09;">text</span> <span class="data" data-url="http://www.google.com">google.com</span> text <span class="data" data-url="http://www.yahoo.com">yahoo.com</span> text.'; What I want to do is get the data-url from all spans with the class data. So, it should output: $string = 'text <...
I've got the following code: <?php echo strip_tags($firstArticle->introtext); ?> Where $firstArticle is a stdClass object: object(stdClass)[422] public 'link' => string '/maps101/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:greenlands-newest-iceberg&catid=11:geography-in-the-news' (length=125) public 'text' => string 'GREENLAN...
Hello I have a lot of div tags, but I want to delete the div tag of characters in that little div tag.Number of string <10 ex $txt=<<<HTML <div class="abc"> 123ab</div> <div id="abc"> 123ab</div> <div class="abc"> 123abcdfdfsdfsdfdsfsdfsdfdsf</div> HTML; And return only dig(include long string) $txt=<<<HTML <div class="abc"> 1...
I'm using strip_tags in PHP and after it has processed the string, the string now also contains no \n's.. Is this standard with strip_tags? ...