PHP - No Tag Stripping

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
 
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Hi All,

Hope you can help, I'm having problems with the strip_tags code, I'm having problems getting it to work with certain tags, the code below shows my issue:


$print_description = <span style="color: #ff99cc; font-size: large">4 x BLUE handmade clay feet</span>

$print_description = strip_tags($print_description); //remove html because of danger of broken tags

I've cut down the code to show the problem. So I want to strip the Span tags; the problem I am having is as soon as you have a style attribute with more than one attribute and you use a ; symbol strip_tag will strip the entire content of the <span>AND ALL THE TEXT IN THE MIDDLE</span>.

I want to just be left with '4 x BLUE handmade clay feet'

If I take the ; out and just have one style it works fine. I am using tiny_MCE so don't have the option not to use what it makes me use.

I've searched the net and have tried a few things to make it work but now I'm at a loss.

Any help would be gratefully received.

In querying my database, I'm Selecting nameFirst and nameLast, and it produces a name like Joe Smith.  I'm trying to match a photo with the name.  Right now I'm uploading photos into a folder naming the file (e.g. SmithJoe.jpg). 

For reasons that involve writers being able to upload and access photos, I'm trying to use an image plugin.  When uploading photos, it strips capital letters, so SmithJoe,jpg goes in as smithjoe.jpg, and it's not matching my database query. 

Here is the code I'm working with that works quite well with this one exception:


$query = 'SELECT * FROM wp_playerRank';
$results = mysql_query($query);
while($line = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {

if ($line['wpID'] == $wp_tagID)  {

echo '<div class="player">';


// Here is the code that produces the image.  I need to get rid of capital letters for ease of use

echo '<div><img src="/wp-content/uploads/' . $line['nameLast'] . $line['nameFirst'] . '.jpg"></div>';



echo '<div class="playerData">' . $line['height'] . ' ';
if ($line['position'] == 'PG')  {echo 'Point Guard';}
elseif ($line['position'] == 'SG')  {echo 'Shooting Guard';}
elseif ($line['position'] == 'SF')  {echo 'Small Forward';}
elseif ($line['position'] == 'PF')  {echo 'Power Forward';}
elseif ($line['position'] == 'C')  {echo 'Center';}
echo '</div>';
echo '<div class="playerData">' . $line['hschool'] . '</div>';
echo '<div class="playerData">' . $line['summer'] . '</div>';
echo '<div class="playerData">Class of ' .$line['year'] . '</div>';

if ($line['committed'] == 'y') {
echo '<div>
<br>Committed to <strong>'. $line['college'] . '</strong></div>
';}

}
}