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Description

Cleans text of all formating and scripting code

Syntax

cleanText(&$text)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
&$text

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, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
        return $text;
}

Examples

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