By using Symfony validators
How to prevent some HTML tags like
<input></input>
<textarea><textarea>
from being entered in input field and saved in database?
You can assert using regex on text/string properties in your entity. For example, this should block any HTML tags in a string:
// src/Entity/Thing.php
namespace App\Entity;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
class Thing
{
/**
* @Assert\Regex(
* pattern="/<[a-z][\s\S]*>/i",
* match=false,
* message="Your text cannot contain HTML"
* )
*/
protected $text;
}
This should check for input and textarea elements:
// src/Entity/Thing.php
namespace App\Entity;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
class Thing
{
/**
* @Assert\Regex(
* pattern="/<(?=.*? .*?\/ ?>|textarea|input)[a-z]+.*?>|<([a-z]+).*?<\/\1>/i",
* match=false,
* message="Your text cannot contain certain HTML tags"
* )
*/
protected $text;
}