php htmlawed removing href link

Question

I am capturing some content using tinyMCE, and then posting the content back to php script to store in database.

I am using htmlawed to remove anything nasty.

The content of the $_POST variable is

<p>This is a link&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk\">https://www.bbc.co.uk</a></p>

I am then using this code on the server

$Details = $_POST["Details"];

$config = array('elements'=>'* -script -object'); //dont allow any scripts
$SanitizedDetails = htmLawed($Details, $config);

SanitizedDetails then contains this

 <p>This is a link&nbsp;<a href="\">https://www.bbc.co.uk</a></p>

It has removed the contents of href (just left a backslash)

Please could somebody help with config for htmlawed

Answer 1

You need to delete the first backslash \ from href=\ and the last one from uk\ and you're ready to go.