Re: [WSG] Problem Validating CSS

[Chris Stratford]

Thats great thanks!
:)

There are a whole bunch of PHP tags available to use...
Thanks for that tho :)
Your advice has helped me a lot :D


cheers Pete!

Chris Stratford
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Http://www.neester.com

Peter Firminger wrote:

It's good practice to do it for & (&) and " (") in the text all the
time (HTML or XHTML).

Also be aware of em-dashes, en-dashes, epsilons (...) and the curly
varieties of " and ' (which I hate and always strip back to the plain text
version).

If it's your own blog software, make sure to replace them as you output the
formatted text. I'm sure there's a PHP function (?) that does this
conversion on a string for you.

Not wanting to go OT here but in CF I generally run this function over all
inputs to a content database:

	function InputClean(string)
	{
	returnstring = Trim(string);
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '-', '-', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '-', '-', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '.', '...', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '"', '"', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '"', '"', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, "'", "'", "all");
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, "'", "'", "all");
	return returnstring;
	}

And this one on output to the page

	function OutputFormat(string)
	{
	returnstring = Trim(string);
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '&', '&', 'all');
	returnstring = Replace(returnstring, '"', '"', 'all');
	return returnstring;
	}

As mentioned before, also make sure you do it if you're dynamicly building
URLs with a querystring
(e.g. "/blog.php?id=#something#&method=#somethingelse#")

Sorry, I don't do PHP. Someone else may have a PHP solution for you.

P


  

Its an & in text, not in a URL or anything - I didn't realise this posed a
    

problem.
  

:(
    

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