PHP - Stripping Extension (and More) From Url

I have a small script that prints the contents of a log on my server but it's removing tags from the output.

An example would be: <username> data here

is being printed as: data here

removing: <username>

I do not want it to strip these out of the output. How do I avoid this?

Code: [Select]
<?
$cmd = "tail -5 /opt/mserver/server.log";
exec("$cmd 2>&1", $output);
foreach($output as $outputline) {
print ("$outputline\n");
}
?>

It seems like there should be a dedicated php function to strip a SPECIFIC tag, rather than the functionality of strip_tags.

I'm using this: Quote

function stripSingleTags($tags, $string)
{
    foreach( $tags as $tag )
    {
        $string = preg_replace('#</?'.$tag.'[^>]*>#is', '', $string);
    }
    return $string;
}

But this will not help me if for example I want to trip out scripts <script> ... </script>.

Is there a better way?

Hi, this is probably really simple for the majority here, but it's catching me out.  I want to know what I need to add to the code below to strip <> HTML tags from the field post_title.

Hope somebody can help.

Thanks in advance.

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<?php
mysql_connect("********", "********", "********") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("website_news") or die(mysql_error());

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news_posts ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5") or die(mysql_error()); while($info = mysql_fetch_array( $data )) 

{ 
Print "<font color='black' face='arial'><li><a href='/website/news/?p=".$info['ID'] . "'>";
if ( strlen($info['post_title']) > 60)
{
$PostTitle = substr($info['post_title'], 0, 60);
print $PostTitle. "...";
}

else
{
print $info['post_title'];
}
Print "</a> <font color=#666666><i> - posted on ";
$date = date('j M \'y', strtotime($info['post_date']));
Print $date;
Print "</i>";
} 

 ?>

i'm having problems with apostrophes causing an error on my contact form. I've tried stripslash and also str_replace but i can't get it to work. what am i doing wrong?

thanks 


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<?php
if(isset($_POST['email'])) {
     
    // EDIT THE 2 LINES BELOW AS REQUIRED
    $email_to = "test@test.com";
    $email_subject = "test";
     
     
    function died($error) {
        // your error code can go here
        echo "We are very sorry, but there were error(s) found with the form you submitted. ";
        echo "These errors appear below.<br /><br />";
        echo $error."<br /><br />";
        echo "Please go back and fix these errors.<br /><br />";
        die();
    }
     
    // validation expected data exists
    if(!isset($_POST['contact_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['last_name']) ||
        !isset($_POST['email']) ||
        !isset($_POST['telephone']) ||
        !isset($_POST['comments'])) {
        died('We are sorry, but there appears to be a problem with the form you submitted.');      
    }
    
    foreach($_POST['check'] as $value) { 
$check_msg .= "Checked: $value\n"; 
} 

    $contact_name = str_replace("'", "&#38;#039;", $contact_name); 
    $contact_name = $_POST['contact_name']; // required
    $last_name = $_POST['last_name']; // required
    $email_from = $_POST['email']; // required
    $telephone = $_POST['telephone']; // not required
    $comments = $_POST['comments']; // required
     
    $error_message = "";
    $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';
  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email_from)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Email Address you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
    $string_exp = "/^[A-Za-z .'-]+$/";
    
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$contact_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The First Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(!preg_match($string_exp,$last_name)) {
    $error_message .= 'The Last Name you entered does not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($comments) < 2) {
    $error_message .= 'The Comments you entered do not appear to be valid.<br />';
  }
  if(strlen($error_message) > 0) {
    died($error_message);
  }
    $email_message = "Form details below.\n\n";
     
    function clean_string($string) {
      $bad = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
      return str_replace($bad,"",$string);
    }
     
    $email_message .= "Contact Name: ".clean_string($contact_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Agency/Company Name: ".clean_string($last_name)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Email Address: ".clean_string($email_from)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Dates Required: ".clean_string($telephone)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Type Required: ".clean_string($check_msg)."\n";
    $email_message .= "Any other info: ".clean_string($comments)."\n";


     
     
// create email headers
$headers = 'From: '.$email_from."\r\n".
'Reply-To: '.$email_from."\r\n" .
'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
@mail($email_to, $email_subject, $email_message, $headers); 
?>
 
thanks
 
<?php
}
?>