Re: getting rid of bad characters
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:43:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: getting rid of bad characters | ||
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On Mon, October 31, 2005 9:30 am, Dan McCullough wrote:
> I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing MS
> Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to acceptable
> HTML safe characters. The problem comes about when the people using
> the forms paste large articles from Word into the form, I do a normal
> check and add slashes but lately they have been getting lazy and using
> the special characters from Word.
There are several functions at http://php.net/htmlentities
in the
User-Contributed notes for this.
Pick the one you like.
PS ALWAYS read the User-Contributed notes of related functions when
looking for this kind of stuff. They're a Gold Mine.
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