From: Max Benjamin <moore.joseph@...>
Date: 2006-07-24T04:33:07+09:00
Subject: Re: strip tags?

Mat Schaffer wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Max Benjamin wrote:
>> Thanks for the quick replys.
>> I should have been more explicit in my question.  I want to strip html
>> tags in order to sanitize form input.  I'm a bit of a ruby noob and I
>> was hoping to find a function similar to PHP's strip_tags, one that
>> would remove both html and ruby code.
>> Best
> 
> For sanitizing input, just escaping might be a better idea because it
> has less chance of being destructive.  If you're on rails there's an h
> () function for this.  If you're doing something else, maybe check
> out how rails does it and replicate it.  There might be something
> easy that someone on this list knows that don't.
> 
> If you really want to strip them, I'd bet the regexp solution is no
> less effective than PHP's strip_tags.
> -Mat

Thanks for the help everybody.
Best,
Max

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