Re: HTML character escape codes from beyond

Perhaps the user pasted in characters that caused those HTML codes to be part of their input... -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Salmond" <rob.salmond@home.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: [PHP] HTML character escape codes from beyond > A curiousity appeared in some code I put together almost six months ago > now. The site owner emailed me the output of our script which pulls > together a collection of $HTTP_POST_VARS, and emails them off as a plain > text document with some other information. Strewn about in one of these > emails was &#somenumber; style html escaped character. The number 61623 > over and over at seemingly random locations. > > Aside from mail(), trim() and some sundry case manipulation functions > I've used nothing I can think of that would cause characters to be altered > this way. Has anyone got a suggestion that might lead me in the right > direction? > > Much thanks, > Rob Salmond. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >