There has got to be a better way to do this (Input Handling/Tag stripping)

[eluser]awpti[/eluser]
Right now, when I run through validation, before I do my insert I run almost all input through htmlentities as such;

Code:

$input_data = array
(
    'job_passphrase'        => $this->input->post('job_passphrase'),
    'job_edit_key'          => md5($this->input->post('passphrase').date('U')),
    'job_company'           => htmlentities($this->input->post('job_company')),
    'job_location'          => htmlentities($this->input->post('job_location')),
    'job_website'           => htmlentities($this->input->post('job_website')),
    'job_email'             => $this->input->post('job_email'),
    'job_title'             => htmlentities($this->input->post('job_title')),
    'job_category'          => $this->input->post('job_category'),
    'job_description'       => htmlentities($this->input->post('job_description')),
    'job_to_apply'          => $fixed_apply,
    'job_to_apply_type'     => $to_apply_type
);

This doesn't seem terribly elegant or intelligent. I really don't want any HTML at all inside of a post. I'd rather strip the tags and leave the content intact without heavy usage of regular expressions - but I doubt there is a way to avoid regex. None that I can think of anyway.

How do you handle form input if you don't want any html in the body of the content?

I'm trying to push out version 2.0 of IgnitedJobs (and I have no idea why - it's not ever going to get any usage. Good ol' catch 22. No traffic due to no posts, no posts because of no traffic.