Re: Single quotes verses double quotes default behavior with DW --------> (Pretty much 0T )

At 6:40 PM +0200 6/28/06, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > 3. Then use htmlentities() to retrieve the pages. > >grand. so then he'll have stuff like '>body<' >probably not what he wants - granted you can use regular expressions >to change all the content *between* the tags he actually wants to >output which be closer to the to what he might want but even then you >have to be careful not to 'entitize' stuff that was already existing >as html entities in the data coming from the DB otherwise he ends >up with stuff like: > > '< & > are characters with > special meaning in HTML and should be html encoded as > < & >'. > >I guess now is not the time to freak Ryan with all the potential >problems related to charset encoding :-) Ah yes -- you are absolutely right. I was thinking about displaying the output directly to a browser for review. I imagine that what Ryan wants is to display the html exactly as it was gathered and thus displayed AS a web page. In that case, Ryan, don't use htmlentities() to retrieve the data -- just get it. It will be as it was, so sayth tedd. As it is written, so it shall be done. tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com