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[John Lacey]

Chris Shiflett wrote:


> There are also two different opinions on this:
> 
> 1. Perform htmlentities() prior to storage.
> 2. Perform htmlentities() prior to display.
> 
> The first can be better if you must display data in HTML very often.
> Rather than perform htmlentities() every time, you can just pull straight
> from the database. 
> 


FWIW, I believe data should be "display-agnostic" for want 
of a better term.  Keeping it "raw" is, in my opinion, the 
way to handle stored data.


John