Re: htmlspecialchars() alias

Jason G. wrote:

Hello General and Dev list, Considering the fact that it is good practice to use htmlspecialchars() anytime you are outputting non-html content to the browser... After typing the 16 characters in the htmlspecialchars() function thousands of times... I was wondering if it would be feasible to create an alias for this function, say hsc() or something short. Even nicer, but probably not practical would be a language extension like: <?== $var ?> being the same as <?= htmlspecialchars($var) ?>

Yup, sounds like a good idea. But I guess you could always wrap htmlspecialchars in your own function until php gets that feature.