Is there a way to disable html tags?

[DustyJoe]

I have a form with a textarea that when submitted saves to a database...

when I pull the data entered from the text area from the database and display it on my site, I would like to disable all html tags and only allow text..

That way if someone enters <img src=blahblah> instead of showing the image, it will just show the tags... or not allow it at all?

I know this can be done, but my brain is broken at the moment.

Thanks.

[kh99]

If you call the function htmlspecialchars_uni() on a string, it will convert any special html chars to their "enitites" so they will display instead of acting as tags.