Little question

[dan_t]

I've got a function for making input safe. One takes from a textarea on a form.
The problem is when someone types a few paragraphs in it, using regular sentence stuff like ( ' , . () ? ) it kicks it out and gives them my error message.
How can I keep out the unsafe stuff, but still allow someone to "speak their mind"? Something like a preg_replace maybe?
If so, how can I add it on to my other function?
Thanks
Dan

[matthewl]

you might be able to use htmlspecialchars(): http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

[dan_t]

It seems that everything works perfectly except for the stripslashes won't accept apostrophes.
How do I fix this?

[matthewl]

can you give give me an example of the code/data and/or php error if there is one?

[rajarajan2017]

<?php 
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?"; 
  
// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly? 
echo stripslashes($str); 
?>

[matthewl]

<?php 
$str = "Is your name O\'reilly?"; 
  
// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly? 
echo stripslashes($str); 
?>

Thank you. Why did I not think of posting that example? Oh well.