FUDforum: PHP discussions » html entity double escaping

Home » General » PHP discussions » html entity double escaping (how to fix that)

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

html entity double escaping [message #168279]

Mon, 08 April 2013 12:32

captain picard

Messages: 15
Registered: March 2013

Karma: 0

Junior Member

hi there!

we cannot view these entities...

&
ß
'
&

because "&" is converted to "&" by default!

as i've seen and allready tried out in html mode, it works. but thats not the solution in this case! guess you're using the htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars() to escape those signs! please tell me where i can find the code where this replacement is done?

i would like to add the new parameter double_encode on using htmlentities(). this should fix this. htmlentities are not escaped twice then: & -!> &amp; and will remain as & i hope...

thanks in advance
cheers,
dk

[Updated on: Mon, 08 April 2013 12:32]

Report message to a moderator

Re: html entity double escaping [message #168302 is a reply to message #168279]

Sun, 14 April 2013 06:59

naudefj

Messages: 3775
Registered: December 2004

Karma: 28

Senior Member
Administrator
Core Developer

Why don't you rather use the equivalent Unicode characters?

Anyway, if you insist you can change tags_to_html() in post_proc.inc.t.

Report message to a moderator

Aw: Re: html entity double escaping [message #168587 is a reply to message #168302]

Tue, 28 May 2013 07:11

captain picard

Messages: 15
Registered: March 2013

Karma: 0

Junior Member

Thanks, I did so.
It's working now as expected for me!

Inserting unicode characters would need a complete map, sometimes i need things like ← → which are simple to remember.

changes:

$str = htmlspecialchars($str);

in tags_to_html() of forumcache/src/post_print.inc.t to the following

$str = htmlspecialchars($str, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_COMPAT | ENT_HTML401, "UTF-8", FALSE);

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	SQL optimization join
Next Topic:	Using PHP can we create any mobile applications?

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Thu Apr 03 07:14:28 GMT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.03684 seconds