Hi Guys,
Id like to strip all html tags from a string apart from things like
Bold , Underline or Href ?

Any ideas how to do this.

I know i can use strip_tags But this removes ALL

You wrong. strip_tags is perfect way. There is a second parameter - allowable_tags, you can use the optional second parameter to specify tags which should not be stripped.
http://php.net/strip_tags

Hi Lynxus, just as a code example for what you need, you can do the following

PHP Code:

$yourstring = 'hello <br/> how are you <p>yep</p> <strong>boldd</strong> <u>underlined</u> <a href="hello.php">hello</a>';
echo strip_tags($yourstring, '<p><a><u>'); 


Freakin awesome! i did not think it did it ( I thought, how cool it would be if it did! ) but didnt realise it actually did

Perfect example of "always read the manual"

Originally Posted by adam89

Perfect example of "always read the manual"

Well yeah i spose it is

I was sure it wouldn't do what i wanted, So didn't bother lol.

May I ask how you are going to be using it? You need to be careful, because the second argument to strip_tags will allow certain tags, but will also allow all attributes on those tags. If you're using this to sanitize user input you'll need to implement a custom means of removing certain attributes if this is sanitizing publicly inputted information. Stuff like onmouseover and onclick can be quite bad for your page if it is injected by a random person.