[speedway]

Thank you Sir.

Armed with that I went searching on Google and found this:

function stripBBCode($text_to_search) {
$pattern = '|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si';
$replace = '';
return preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text_to_search);

}

but it zaps *all* BBCode. Would anyone have any idea on how to make it *not* remove things like:
[ QUOTE ]
[ /QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE=
[ B ]
[ I ]
[ U ]
or any of the other basic ones? (spaces included on purpose so the forum doesn't try and use them)

I did find this function as well:

function stripBBCode($stringInput) {
    if (strpos($stringInput, '[') !== false) {
        $validBBCodeArray = array(
            'b',
            'i',
            'u',
            'url',
            'quote',
        );
        
        $validBBCode = join('|', $validBBCodeArray);
        
        $stringOutput = preg_replace(
            '@\[(?:\/{0,1}?)(?:' . $validBBCode . ')(?:\s{0,1}?)(?:\/{0,1}?)\]@',
            '',
            $stringInput
        );
    } else {
        $stringOutput = $stringInput;
    }

    return $stringOutput;
}

but it strips everything *except* font and size tags (for some reason).

All the help so far is being appreciated I assure you. Now for that last little step

Cheers
Bruce