# \[MySQL/PHP\]Disabling HTML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-php-disabling-html/192158>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-php-disabling-html/192158 "2006-06-26T17:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-php-disabling-html/192158/1 "2006-06-26T17:30:31Z")

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I’m programming a forum in PHP and MySQL. What if I don’t want to allow HTML bold tags in the posts or links in the titles? When someone tries to use these kind of HTML, I want to have the post literally write out the tags instead of have them in action.