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Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? [message #174044 is a reply to message #174031]

Fri, 20 May 2011 07:34

alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX
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El 20/05/2011 0:31, Mentalguy2k8 escribió/wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a little page with a form, so that users can
> "translate" any URL into the correct format for posting on a forum.
>
> For instance, they want to share a link and type in "www.google.com"
> (without quotes) and the form turns it into "<a
> href="www.google.com"></a>" (without the beginning and end quotes) and
> displays that as text, so that they can copy/paste it into the forum
> post box. It will also include an image-posting version so that it adds
> the "<img src" etc to an image URL.
>
> How do I "quote" the result so that it displays as plain text rather
> than a mess? All I'm getting is a mess of blue code.

The function to escape HTML is htmlspecialchars():

http://php.net/htmlspecialchars

Make sure you use it every time you print arbitrary plain text, not only
in this case.

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		How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Mentalguy2k8 on Thu, 19 May 2011 22:31
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Jeff North on Fri, 20 May 2011 00:47
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 May 2011 01:47
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Fri, 20 May 2011 07:34
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Mentalguy2k8 on Fri, 20 May 2011 08:44
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 May 2011 08:54
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Jeff North on Fri, 20 May 2011 10:21
		Re: How to "quote code" in PHP? By: Mentalguy2k8 on Fri, 20 May 2011 16:21

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