note 33480 modified in function.str-replace by aidan

From: Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:01:18 +0000
Subject: note 33480 modified in function.str-replace by aidan
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An excellent way of making sure your pages don't contain "invalid entities", IE. Valid HTML is using the following function. Most forum packages / extensions provide output containing the symbol &, we don't want this! <?php function include_safe ($file) { $array = file($file); foreach ($array as $line) { print str_replace("&", "&amp;", $line); } } ?> The same technique could also be used in conjuntion with htmlmspecialchars or htmlentities. --was-- An excellent way of making sure your pages don't contain "invalid entities", IE. Valid HTML is using the following function. Most forum packages / extensions provide output containing the symbol &, we don't want this! <?php function include_safe ($file) { $array = file($file); foreach ($array as $line) { print str_replace("&", "&", $line); } } ?> The same technique could also be used in conjuntion with htmlmspecialchars or htmlentities. http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

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