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phphtmlfetchsanitize

Sanitize POST content with HTML contents

I want to send HTML content by POST. But when fetching it and sanitizing it it also cleans the HTML characters.

$Code = filter_var_array($value, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

WHen I send :

I would like to <strong>Save this data</strong>

I receive :

I would like to Save this data

What should I change to create a safe string?

edit : In my form I have a WYSIWYG editor (FCK Editor) and it's contents is where I am after.

Solution

  • I have used HTMLPurifier which is a PHP filter library to sanitize HTML input.

    Basic usage is something like this;

    include_once('/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLpurifier.auto.php');
$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
$purifier = new HTMLPurifier($config);
$clean['htmlData'] = $purifier->purify($_POST['htmlData']);