I have a little profile system with mentions in place
The 'content' value in my Posts table is stored as:
<a href="/profile/Alice">Alice</a> Alice, you there? <strong>lol</strong>
- the a href Profile link is generated by my system (I replace all mentions with a html link to the profile)
- the <strong>lol</strong> are user-defined HTML that I do not wish to display (I use htmlentities() on all user-posts so their html input becomes that)
However, the end-result is everything being shown as HTML (I display them using json and jquery). How can I make it such that it only shows the in HTML (for my mention links), but not all the user-specified ones? (i.e. <strong>)
I want the post to display the mentions in hyper link, but at the same time, I do not want all user entered html to be displayed as html.
I use jQuery append to display my posts.
Thanks!