Nah.. you don't rock!  You suck!  FB told me so

I ROXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Whereas you both SUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and BLOWWZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You don't have to manually parse the tags, you can use the following;

strip_tags($pmTitle, '<b>');

Where $pmTitle is your string, and the tags mentioned are the allowed tags, everything else between < & > gets stripped!

If I strip tags as you advised, web development types like ourselves won't be able to post code samples.  Nerr nerr!!!!!  I ROXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  U SUXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  etc.  etc.

That's why you create your own proprietary method of code samples etc.  Introduce tags like proper forums do.  strip_tags is an efficient method of stripping harmful tags out and allowing certain html. Your method is probably over-complicated and really inefficient.

So nerr!!!!

I really wanted users to be able to demonstrate code samples so I'm using

htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($string), ENT_QUOTES);

This translates any slashes, quotes, < and > into their HTML equivalents.

Your 'pagination' suxxx..  Considering you didn't know what it was when I offered you my code several weeks ago.  Your tags jump around depending on what page you are on, what's all that about?  That shouldn't happen!

I rule because I am better than you so nurr nurr nurr nurrr nurr!

The tags don't jump around!!  There are five spaces for: "First Page", "Previous Page", [current page], "Next Page" and "Last Page".  If you're on the first page then there's no point in displaying the "First Page" or "Previous Page" hyperlinks.  I suppose I could display them darkened and not clickable.