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Description

Cleans text of all formating and scripting code

Syntax

cleanText(&$text)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description

Defined in

libraries/joomla/filter/filteroutput.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.filter.filteroutput' );

Source Body

function cleanText ( &$text )
{
        $text = preg_replace( "'<script[^>]*>.*?</script>'si", '', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/<a\s+.*?href="([^"]+)"[^>]*>([^<]+)<\/a>/is', '\2 (\1)', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/<!--.+?-->/', '', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/{.+?}/', '', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/&nbsp;/', ' ', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/&amp;/', ' ', $text );
        $text = preg_replace( '/&quot;/', ' ', $text );
        $text = strip_tags( $text );
        $text = htmlspecialchars( $text );
        return $text;
}

Examples

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