FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED filter strips or encodes unwanted characters.
This filter is an alias for the FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING filter
This filter removes data that is potentially harmful to the application. It is used to strip tags and remove or encode unwanted characters.
Name: "stripped"
ID-number: 513
Possible options or flags:
FILTER_FLAG_NO_ENCODE_QUOTES - This flag does not encode quotes
FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW - strips characters with ASCII values below 32
FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH - remove characters with ASCII value above 32
FILTER_FLAG_ENCODE_LOW - Encode characters with ASCII values below 32
FILTER_FLAG_ENCODE_HIGH - Encode characters with ASCII values above 32
FILTER_FLAG_ENCODE_AMP - Encode the & character into &
<?php$var="<b>Peter Griffin<b>";var_dump(filter_var($var, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED));?>
The output of the code looks like this:
string(13) "Peter Griffin"