Re: Escaping php content output for valid html

On Friday 16 April 2004 20:19, Merlin wrote: > hmm so you would suggest to save the entitty code directly to the database > in the first place? If the data is mainly displayed as HTML then yes, store the HTML entities and do a conversion when you want plain text or whatever. > What happens if I want to use the text for something > else, lets say print outs, or the entity code changes over the years, > respectively the browsers comming up with new technologies and dropping the > old standards? Do a conversion. > Another thing I do not understand concerning php, if this is that > important, why is there not a function who does this? something like > ent_replace()? Do I have to write a str_replace statement for all the > entity characters? If yes, does anybody already have such a code line? It > sounds to me that this is like inventing the wheel over and over again? Well if PHP had a function for everything that could be done in a line or two of code then it would have more functions than I could count on my fingers and toes. This might help, get_html_translation_table(). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Words have a longer life than deeds. -- Pindar */