# \[php\] Stripping html characters
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-stripping-html-characters/107464
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 15, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-stripping-html-characters/107464 "2004-04-15T17:03:57Z")
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### Author:  [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-stripping-html-characters/107464/1 "2004-04-15T17:03:57Z")
Hey everyone,
I’m adding a comment form to my blog, but I don’t want people to be able to break my blog by entering html or php or any other code. So I need to know if there is a function that converts special characters such as \< or \> or / etc. into their form that’s like &whatever;
I hope that made sense, I don’t know the proper words for some of the things I was talking about so that might have been hard to follow.
I guess if I really have to I can just do a str\_replace on \< and \> but I’d like to know if there’s a more effective way.
Thanks :pleased: