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[AbraCadab Ra]

I had a similar issue and this is the solution i came up with. I have often
wondered if this is the right way of doing it or not, but I'm by far not a
PHP guru, just learning.

before inserting into the database I encode the data using the
htmlspecialchars() function.

$encReq = htmlspecialchars($req, ENT_QUOTES);

when I'm displaying it back to the user i had to use the following function
to convert it back into HTML.

function unhtmlspecialchars( $string )
{
    $string = str_replace ( '&', '&', $string );
    $string = str_replace ( ''', '\'', $string );
    $string = str_replace ( '"', '"', $string );
    $string = str_replace ( '&lt;', '<', $string );
    $string = str_replace ( '&gt;', '>', $string );

    return $string;
}

This is something i came across after doing some reading though the PHP
manual and some of the user comments on the subject.

If anything knows of a more effective and efficient method, I'd love to know
about it.

Thanks,
Yusuf.

On 10/19/06, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>     you can't display tab in HTML and the textarea box takes just plain
> ASCII. So any fancy spacing, indenting or such will either be stripped
> or shown as single spaces. And HTML also cannot display an arry of
> simple white space. You would need to convert that to non-breaking
> spaces. But isn't there a function that translates all kinds of things
> to the equivalent HTML code?
>
> Ben Sgro (sk) wrote:
> > Felix,
> >
> > Sure, that is helpful, but what about tabs, lists and all the other
> > elements that could exist in an email message.
> > I'm looking for a canned function or class that will do the work.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Ben
> >
> > ....some code.....
> > $details   = str_replace("\n\r", "<br>", $cellSet[0]['info']);
>
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