PHP remove junk characters
Remove junk characters and only allow alphanumeric, letters and numeric (numbers)
<?php
function _cleanup_text($text) {
$text = strip_tags($text);
//$text = htmlspecialchars_decode($text);
//$text = preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]{2,8};/i","",$text);
$RemoveChars[] = "([,.:;!?()#&%+*\"'])";
$ReplaceWith = " ";
$text = preg_replace($RemoveChars, $ReplaceWith, $text);
}
?>