DrewBroadley

	//remove unnecessary tags			function filtertags($text){		$text = nl2br($text);		$text = str_replace("<br />","",$text);		$text = str_replace("<br>","",$text);		$text = str_replace("'","",$text);		$text = ereg_replace("^"," ",$text);		$text = str_replace(".","",$text);		$text = str_replace("?","",$text);		$text = str_replace('"',"",$text);		$text = str_replace('-',"",$text);		$text = str_replace('!',"",$text);		$text = str_replace(':',"",$text);		$text = str_replace(';',"",$text);																	$text = strip_tags($text);		$text = utility::removeTags($text);		$text = trim($text);	return $text;	}		//remove unnecessary characters			function filterword($word){		$word = ereg_replace(",","",$word);		$word = ereg_replace("\?","",$word);		$word = ereg_replace("\(","",$word);		$word = ereg_replace("\)","",$word);		$word = ereg_replace("\.","",$word);		$word = ereg_replace("\.","",$word);				$word= strtolower($word);		return $word;		}