Disallow Specific HTML

Minimum Requirements:
phpBB 2.0.20
PHP 4.1.0†

Page Updated: Mar 08, 2007

While I personally never allow HTML to be used in posts on my own forums, I can understand the attraction of doing so. For experienced web masters that haven't used forums before, it's certainly easier than learning all the ins and outs of BBCode, which could be different on every forum a person visits. phpBB's developers understand than some people prefer HTML also, so they included support for doing so in phpBB 2.

phpBB 2 also allows administrators to define specific HTML tags that users are permitted to include in posts. But suppose you just want to exclude a few tags? It's a pain to enter all the other various tags. That's where Disallow Specific HTML becomes useful. It will alter the existing option, "Allowed HTML tags," to "HTML tags not allowed." All tags will be allowed, except those entered in the board configuration.

Features of Disallow Specific HTML 1.0.0

Allows administrators to define HTML tags that are not allowed to be used in the forums.
All tags, except those defined, will be allowed when HTML is turned on.
Requires only minimal changes to install.
Preserves existing basic security measures on HTML usage.

Also Available At

This refinement can also be downloaded from the following sites. They may have a slightly older version; new releases are posted here before being submitted to these sites. These are the only "official mirror" sites where this refinement is submitted.

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Additional Notes

† This download was tested only with PHP 4, but is expected to work on PHP 5 also.

Not compatible with phpBB 2.0.19 or earlier. For those versions, try RobM's Disallow Specified HTML Tags.