Stupid PHP move

June 13, 2006

Yes, this happened awhile back, and is another shining example of why people have a hard time trusting/adopting PHP as a real ‘enterprise’ language.

From http://php.net/strip_tags:

Since PHP 4.3.0, HTML comments are also stripped. This is hardcoded and can not be changed with allowable_tags.

So, in other words, behaviour that existed for years is unceremoniously removed without warning and without any other useful option available.

I looked through the CVS comments for the strip_tags function here and didn’t find *any* mention of HTML comments.  Interestingly, there was some work done to strip_tags to make it aware of XML tags.  Why didn’t they put this in the parser and make PHP work with short tags AND XML like I’ve posted about before?

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