title: PHP - HTML Purifier - hello w<o>rld/world tutorial striptags
body: <p>I am just looking into using HTML Purifier to ensure that a user-inputed string (that represents the name of a person) is sanitized.</p>
  
  <p>I do not want to allow any html tags, script, markup etc - I just want the alpha, numeric and normal punctuation characters.</p>
  
  <p>The sheer number of options available for HTML Purifier is daunting and, as far as i can see, the docs do not seem to have a beggining/middle or end</p>
  
  <p>see: <a href="http://htmlpurifier.org/docs" rel="noreferrer">http://htmlpurifier.org/docs</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>Is there a simple hello world tutorial online for HTML Purifier that shows how to sanitize a string removing all the bad stuff out of it.</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am also considering just using strip tags:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php" rel="noreferrer">http://php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>or PHP's in built data sanitizing</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php" rel="noreferrer">http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.filter.php</a></li>
  </ul>