Re: &amp

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 01:35 pm, John W. Holmes wrote: > Depends how you define "mess them up"... If you want to display   > literally on a web page, then you need to write   in the source. > So this may not be messing things up but rather preparing them to be shown > on a web page, literally. > > ---John Holmes... True, but the bottom line is   !==   Me personally, I rather keep it in its simplest form " " For example, if you run   through str_replace('&', ' ', $foo) again, it becomes even more "messed up".   The point Im trying to make, is to watch out using str_replace() to convert & to & or something else thats similar, because, one may end up with a situation where they have content like   on their hands.