Re: EE1 plugin code/htmlentities() question
| From: | Richard Quadling | Date: | Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:49:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: EE1 plugin code/htmlentities() question | ||
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On 29 November 2010 19:24, Micky Hulse <mickyhulse.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at this ExpressionEngine plugin:
>
>
> <http://expressionengine.com/downloads/details/xml_encode/>
> Description: This plugin converts reserved XML characters to entities.
> It is used in the RSS templates.
>
> ... Curious about this code:
>
> trim(str_replace(array('/', ' '), array("/",
> ' '), $str));
>
> The plugin author used the above bit of code in the return statement.
>
> Just curious if their is any particular reason why one would want to
> replace / and with / and   respectively?
>
> For example, I am writing a similar plugin which utilizes
> htmlentities()... I guess I am just wondering if I should apply the
> same code as above to my entity-converted string?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> Micky
I'm guessing that is only valid in HTML.
Not sure why / would be encoded as it isn't anything too special
outside of the closing tag.
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